It may seem odd to software developers working today, but the Python programming language was once considered a gap-filler, a way to write scripts that “automate the boring stuff” (as one ...

A new programming language announced by MIT this week aims to remedy that problem, and so far it’s been found to deliver fourfold speed boosts on common algorithms.

If you're a data scientist and need to analyze loads of CSV files for insights into, say, stock-price and market movements, the Julia programming language trumps machine-learning rivals Python and ...

Julia is the only high-level dynamic programming language in the “petaflop club,” having achieved 1.5 petaflop/s using 1.3 million threads, 650,000 cores and 9,300 Knights Landing (KNL) nodes ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files.

Memory management can be challenge enough on traditional data sets, but when big data enters the picture, things can slow way, way down. A new programming language announced by MIT this week aims ...