Programming

11 Sep 23

Python Profiler Links to AI to Improve Code

Computer & Information Technology

Python continues its dominance as one of the top programming languages, yet it’s notorious for being sluggish, so some software developers resort to profilers—tools that run programs to determine which parts of the code are slow. But profilers can be frustrating, because they can slow programs down during the profiling…

05 Sep 23

How Python Swallowed the World

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Programmers seek languages that let them solve particular problems in concise, elegant ways and communicate those solutions to other programmers. For the last 10 years, IEEE Spectrum has been trying to help with that search with its annual interactive rankings of the Top Programming Languages, the latest of which is…

August 29, 2023
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In our goal of trying to estimate a programming language’s popularity, we realized that no one can look over the shoulder of every person writing code, whether that be a child writing a Java script for a personal Minecraft server, a mobile app developer hoping to hit it big, or…

29 Aug 23

The Top Programming Languages 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s 10th annual rankings of the Top Programming Languages. While the way we put the TPL together has evolved over the past decade, the basics remain the same: to combine multiple metrics of popularity into a set of rankings that reflect the varying needs of different readers.This…

03 Jul 23

How Coders Can Survive—and Thrive—in a ChatGPT World

Computer & Information Technology

Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI powered by large language models (LLMs), could upend many coders’ livelihoods. But some experts argue that AI won’t replace human programmers—not immediately, at least.“You will have to worry about people who are using AI replacing you,” says Tanishq Mathew Abraham, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical…

30 Mar 23

MIT Turbocharges Python’s Notoriously Slow Compiler

Computer & Information Technology

Python has long been one of—if not the—top programming languages in use. Yet while the high-level language’s simplified syntax makes it easy to learn and use, it can be slower compared to lower-level languages such as C or C++.Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hope to…