For at least the past ten years, there's been a rising chorus of voices calling for the adoption of memory-safe programming ...

Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

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Abstract: Real-time and embedded systems are predominantly written in C, a language that is notoriously not memory safe. This has led to widespread memory-corruption vulnerabilities in real-time ...

This testing guide is for validating the migration from the legacy Python extension API to the new Python Environments extension API. This change affects how the Python Debugger extension resolves ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Microsoft unveiled a suite of AI-powered debugging and profiling tools for .NET developers, integrating GitHub Copilot directly into Visual Studio's diagnostic workflow. The recently announced Copilot ...

Microsoft detailed its plans for advanced AI in its flagship IDE in September, with new modes for debugging and profiling, as well as enhancements for agentic DevOps, in the works. The company last ...

I have both native python and conda installed on my computer, but I deliberately does not add conda's python dir to path since I rarely use it. >where python ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or ...