ZDNet

Programming languages: This open-source AI code generator is very good at writing in C

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released PolyCoder, an automated code generator model that was trained on multiple programming languages, which they say is particularly good at ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click

On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled Canvas, a new interface for ChatGPT designed to enhance collaboration on writing and coding projects. The feature bears similarities to a feature called Artifacts in ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code

OpenAI today released OpenAI Codex, its AI system that translates natural language into code, through an API in private beta. Able to understand more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: This sneaky trick could allow attackers to hide 'invisible' vulnerabilities in code

If you're using the Rust programming language — or JavaScript, Java, Go or Python — in a project, you may want to check for potential differences between reviewed code versus the compiled code that's ...
Hackaday

Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...
InfoWorld

LLMs and the rise of the AI code generators

Large language models like GPT-4 and tools like GitHub Copilot can make good programmers more efficient and bad programmers more dangerous. Are you ready to dive in? When I wrote about GitHub Copilot ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...