Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. In doing so, he may ...

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

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Anthropic's Claude AI autonomously discovered 500+ critical vulnerabilities in popular open-source software using only basic debugging tools.

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A Python-to-Rust transpiler with semantic verification and memory safety analysis. Depyler translates annotated Python code into idiomatic Rust, preserving program semantics while providing ...

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end cognitive complexity analysis workflow using complexipy. We start by measuring complexity directly from raw code strings, then scale the same analysis to ...