The World’s Weirdest Coding Contest Honors the Most Unreadable Programs

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
VentureBeat

Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it's free

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2.5-Coder, a new AI coding assistant that has already become the second most popular demo on Hugging Face Spaces. Early tests suggest its performance rivals GPT-4o, and ...