InfoQ has spoken with Chris Eidhof and Drew Crawford to learn more about the importance that runtime programming plays in Objective-C/Cocoa programming and the implications of its lack in Swift.

A compiler is a computer program that translates from one format to another, most often from a high-level computer language to byte code and machine code. Compilers come in a number of variations ...

When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research ...

Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. It is at an early stage of development and offers users an online play ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study of the runtime, memory usage and energy consumption of twenty seven well-known soft- ware languages. We monitor the performance of such lan- guages using ten ...

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (2023). [2] Quantifying the interpretation overhead of Python. Science of Computer Programming (2022). [3] Reusing Just-in-Time Compiled Code.

In the browser, Python hasn't supported compilation to the WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime, a widely supported IC3 web application standard that compiles code written in Rust, C, C++, and Go into a ...

This new programming language is called ‘human,’” Huang added. "Most people don't know C++, very few people know Python, and everybody, as you know, knows human.” ...

Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript and WebAssembly based on the Rust programming language and the V8 JavaScript engine initially developed for Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers.