Yukihiro Matsumoto - better known as Matz - is building Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby, with help from Anthropic's Claude Code. Spinel, which is on GitHub under the MIT license, works by parsing ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In this tutorial, we will build our own programming language and compiler using Java (you can use any other language ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In 1952, Grace Hopper sat in front of a UNIVAC I and got tired of copying subroutine addresses by hand. Programmers ...

The Signals pattern was first introduced in JavaScript’s Knockout framework. The basic idea is that a value alerts the rest of the application when it changes. Instead of a component checking its data ...

Cursor had said last month that it had managed to build a web browser autonomously with AI agents alone. Anthropic seems to have done one better. Anthropic has announced that it tasked 16 parallel ...

Edit Python AST trees while preserving source formatting Pfst is a clever Python package that performs transformations on Python abstract syntax trees while providing access to comments, formatting (e ...

Abstract: Abstract syntax trees (ASTs) are known from compiler construction where they build the intermediate data format which is passed from the analytic front-end to the synthetic back-end. In ...

“If you're coming from JavaScript, you're going to find a transition to Go a lot simpler than the transition to Rust.” Microsoft ports TypeScript to Go, achieving a 10x increase in compile speed.