As the digital landscape evolves, so does the need for new coding languages and techniques. One such emerging trend is vibe ...

B y any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...

A hot potato: Generative AI is disrupting a lot of areas, especially the programming industry. For a while now, tech leaders have claimed that the technology can make anyone a coder, and that kids don ...

Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial ...

The term may still be in its infancy, but 2025 has been its year, causing it the sky rocket into public consciousness.

Tech enthusiasts often say that anyone can learn coding. Anyone with a wide enough English lexicon, that is. For aspiring programmers in non-English speaking countries, learning to code can require ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

Morgan Stanley’s new AI tool translates code in older languages into plain English. The bank’s developers can then use the English specs to rewrite the code into a newer language. The tool has helped ...

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 ...

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning networks.

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 ...