COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

The code generated by large language models (LLMs) has improved some over time — with more modern LLMs producing code that has a greater chance of compiling — but at the same time, it's stagnating in ...

For decades, Java has been the enterprise world's go-to programming language—the reliable, if somewhat verbose, workhorse powering everything from banking systems to e-commerce platforms. But when the ...

Azul Systems, in its Azul 2025 State of Java Survey & Report, says that Java leads Python and JavaScript for AI development in Java shops, based on a survey of 2,039 Java professionals on six ...

While the use of genAI tools for software development tools is soaring, flying under the radar are issues with code quality, security, and reuse. Generative AI-assisted coding allows developers to ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

Code Llama 70B can generate and debug larger programming strings than Meta’s previous models. Code Llama 70B can generate and debug larger programming strings than Meta’s previous models. is a ...

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Meta, intent on making a splash in a generative AI space rife with competition, is on something of an open source tear. “At Meta, we believe that AI models, but large language models for coding in ...

Microsoft's dev team put AI to work to explain different kinds of expressions in the latest update to Java tooling for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft stewards the development of Java tooling for its ...