Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Abstract: Code embedding represents code semantics in vector form. Although code embedding-based systems have been successfully applied to various source code analysis tasks, further research is ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

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 ...

Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck ...

Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

What if the key to unlocking the full potential of your AI-powered workflows lies not in adding more tools but in optimizing the ones you already have? For developers and teams using Claude Code, the ...

A human programmer won a coding competition in Tokyo. An OpenAI tool took second place. Sam Altman and OpenAI congratulated the winner on X. "I'm trying to give 100% of what I have and try to stay ...

The performance of mypy is important, and we appreciate contributions that improve the performance of mypy, either overall, or in specific use cases. Contributions that regress performance ...