Coding with large language models (LLMs) holds huge promise, but it also exposes some long-standing flaws in software: code that's messy, hard to change safely, and often opaque about what's really ...

Syntax highlighting used to be trickier to implement. Not only does an editor need to understand the syntax of a language, it ...

Abstract: This study investigates the differences in energy consumption between various programming languages, comparing those executed natively with those run on a Virtual Machine. The results ...

Abstract: Smart contracts are automated programs stored on a blockchain, featuring unique attributes such as permissionlessness, trustlessness, immutability, and transparency. These properties ...