Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ...

Researchers on the Ring programming language team have published a paper on using Claude Code to build a TUI framework

A practical evaluation of using AI‑assisted coding to construct a TUI framework for the Ring programming language This ...
GIGAZINE

Meta releases Meta Large Language Model Compiler, a commercially available large-scale language model that can compile and optimize code

Today we're announcing Meta LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Meta Code Llama with additional code optimization and compiler capabilities. These models can emulate the compiler, predict ...
Engadget

Code compiler pioneer Frances Allen dies at 88

It’s a sad week for the computing industry. IBM reports (via the New York Times) that computing pioneer and company fellow Frances Allen died of Alzheimer’s on her birthday, August 4th, at the age of ...
InfoWorld

What is LLVM? The power behind Swift, Rust, Clang, and more

The development landscape is ripe with new languages and improvements on existing ones. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Kotlin from JetBrains, and the experimental Python variant Mojo (and many others) ...
Hackaday

Warnings Are Your Friend – A Code Quality Primer

If there’s one thing C is known and (in)famous for, it’s the ease of shooting yourself in the foot with it. And there’s indeed no denying that the freedom C offers comes with the price of making it ...
Computerworld

How your compiler may be compromising application security

Compilers: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em – at least not if you write code for a living. Compilers are great at taking your hand crafted human-readable program, translating it into ...