VS Code is a popular choice because it’s free, flexible with lots of extensions, and has built-in Git support, making it a ...

UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World ...

Overview Among the powerful new features in Python 3.14 is a new interface for attaching a live debugger to a running Python program. You can inspect the state of a Python app, make changes, ...

Bugs show up, eat all your time, and gaslight you into thinking you are the problem. You’re not. You just solved that problem a few commits ago, but now it’s harvest season again. Half the bugs you ...

Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...

We’ll admit it. We have access to great debugging tools and, yes, sometimes they are invaluable. But most of the time, we’ll just throw a few print statements in whatever program we’re running to ...

A newly uncovered malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) has raised fresh concerns about the security of open source software repositories. The package, named “dbgpkg,” was discovered by ...

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There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From “vibe” coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is ...