The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Every holiday season, Federico and I spend our downtime on nerd projects. This year, both of us spent a lot of that time ...

Microsoft is building a team dedicated to eliminating “every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” which might touch Windows 11. While C powers the bulk of the Windows kernel and low-level ...

Microsoft is planning a significant overhaul of Rust by utilising AI-driven systems to rewrite its legacy C and C++ code at an unprecedented scale. Microsoft may be preparing for one of the most ...

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade, replacing it with Rust. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Anthropic has launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly into Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the ...

This Christmas, let’s gift California an insurance policy. No, not an insurance policy for our homes — those are too expensive, if you can find one in the first place. Instead, let’s get an insurance ...

Claude Code hit $1 billion fast by transforming real developer workflows. Agentic coding built my complex iPhone app in just 11 days. Early command-line access gave Claude Code a huge adoption edge.

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...

It was the first day of spring on Yonge Street in Toronto, 1981, when Eddie Schwartz heard a familiar sound coming from the radio at a local hair salon. Flooding onto the street was a song Schwartz ...