Boing Boing on MSN

Developer spills candy on the floor, invents a programming language

MNM Lang compiles source code into a PNG image made of candy sprites. Each program is a grid of M&M-style tokens - six colors, each mapped to a family of instructions - and you can round-trip the ...
InfoWorld

Ruby sinking in popularity, buried by Python – Tiobe

Longtime favorite for web development falls to 30th in the Tiobe index of language popularity. ‘There is no need for Ruby anymore.’ ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Why everyone should use VS Code (even if they aren't programmers)

It's more than just a code editor.
IEEE

FlowPilot: A Generative AI-Driven Visual Language for Computational Thinking Education

Abstract: This paper introduces FlowPilot, a novel flow-based visual programming language designed to enhance Computational Thinking (CT) education. FlowPilot leverages generative AI to create a ...