Abstract: Rust provides an exciting combination of strong safety guarantees and high performance. Many new systems are being implemented in Rust. Nevertheless, there is a large body of existing C code ...

Our use case will be a string diff tool. Diffing text is a perfect example of a CPU-heavy task that would be appropriate for Rust. We’ll then put our creation to the test against Python’s built-in ...

The PyApp project, written in Rust, aims to make it easy to build standalone executables for Python apps, although you need to be familiar with the Rust toolchain to use it. This video shows a simple ...

TIOBE Programming Index News August 2025: AI Copilots Are Boosting Python’s Popularity Your email has been sent Generative AI can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: Because gen AI scans vast amounts of ...

Varun Chandrasekaran, an Illinois Grainger professor of electrical & computer engineering, is among a team of researchers who have received a $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research ...

What is most striking about Python’s latest wave of third-party tooling is that they aren’t written in Python. Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type ...

Several malicious packages have been uncovered across the npm, Python, and Ruby package repositories that drain funds from cryptocurrency wallets, erase entire codebases after installation, and ...

Today, I learned something that completely flipped my perspective on writing code. In my Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) class, the first thing we discussed was this: “Sometimes, 100 lines of ...

The Rust programming language, with its safety guarantees, has established itself as a viable choice for low-level systems programming language over the traditional, unsafe alternatives like C/C++.