If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for using the Ada programming language and its formally ...

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The ...

User-level services and abstractions provided by operating systems, and How to write low-level programs that utilize those services and abstractions correctly, efficiently, and reliably, using Linux.

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Biologists and chemists have a new programming language to uncover previously unknown environmental pollutants at breakneck speed -- without requiring them to code. Biologists and chemists have a new ...

How good are you at identifying programming languages? Some programming languages you may not know about. No one programming language rules them all. There are literally hundreds to consider. Some ...

Object-oriented programming, inheritance, and subtyping may have specific meanings that don't translate into other languages, depending on the first language you learn. Java is the first language I ...