Everything you may have missed from the past week.

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

March 2026 TIOBE Index stays largely steady, with SQL and R swapping spots, as Paul Jansen explains why the index still ...

One IDE to rule them all. You won't want to use anything else.

Abbie Greenleaf Library, built in 1912, is one of Franconia’s jewels in both its architecture and its content. It not only supplies patrons with books, magazines, artifacts, ...

How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled Visual FoxPro. I’m glad I had the opportunity to contribute to improving the Ring ...

According to Claude on X (Twitter), Jon McBee’s Elisa is a block-based visual programming environment for children where snapped blocks trigger Claude agents that generate the underlying production ...

Abstract: The article examines the educational opportunities offered by the integration of visual programming, artificial intelligence, and robotics for the development of 21st-century skills. It ...