Use UV to run Python packages and programs without installing ...

Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing software. Flojoy, an ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Yearly report finds explosion of GenAI projects, new users from outside the coding community responsible for boost There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most ...

Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like ...

Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...