In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

The Same Prediction, Different Decade Anyone who has been in tech for any length of time will find this fear familiar.

Vibe coding lets anyone build apps in plain English using AI, unleashing innovation - but without guardrails, risks in security, quality, and compliance loom.

As soon as I name VS Code, most people think of a CMD-like interface devs use for coding in C++ and Python. Comparing Notepad ...

Modern IDEs come with AI tools baked in. There is no escape from their Sauron-like gaze. If AI offers up mostly reasonable, generic solutions, will new developers "crack their heads" on hard problems ...

Low-code is an emerging alternative to traditional software development that moves away from full-code alternatives where software engineers are tasked with building, changing, and developing full ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...

For three years — ever since my son Ben was in fifth grade — he and I have engaged in a quixotic but determined quest: We’ve searched for a simple and straightforward way to get the introductory ...