The Difficulty of Programming Languages is a 'Social Construct'—The Reverse Causality Where Learner Count Determines Difficulty

"Python is easy," "Rust is hard," "JavaScript is for beginners"—these assertions are accepted as common sense in the programmer community.However, there is a fundamental misunderstanding here. The dif ...

Interview: The future of Vite & Co. under its new owner, Cloudflare

Following the acquisition by Cloudflare, Alexander Lichter shares insights into VoidZero and the future plans for Vite and other open-source projects.
How-To Geek

Google’s open-source Flutter is the best introduction to creating your own apps

Launched in 2017 as a challenger to React Native, Flutter has grown in popularity since, and now has a slightly greater share ...
linuxiac

NVIDIA Introduces CUDA Rust for Writing GPU Kernels

NVIDIA is expanding CUDA with native Rust GPU kernel development through the new cuda-oxide and cutile-rs projects.
Nature

Language and linguistics articles from across Nature Portfolio

Languages often co-express related meanings, either reusing words or combining parts of words. It is poorly understood when each strategy is favoured. Across 1,982 languages, Brochhagen et al. find ...