Even the smartest machines can't match young minds at language learning. Researchers share new findings on how children stay ...

MIT researchers developed SEAL, a framework that lets language models continuously learn new knowledge and tasks.

AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the ...

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication ...

While the answer of TypeScript’s creators is “yes,” academic researchers who work on similar programming languages tend to loudly assert “No, run-time checks should prevent such misapplications.” ...

A recent Hacker News post looked at the reverse engineering of TikTok’s JavaScript virtual machine (VM). Many commenters assumed the VM was malicious, designed for invasive tracking or ...

However, the TypeScript team with Anders Hejlsberg as lead architect opted for a reimplementation in the Go language instead. The aim of the native implementation in Go, which is compiled ...

Other programming languages, such as C, C++, and Rust, are compiled languages, ... Many modern languages support these features, but Ruby’s syntax is simpler than JavaScript.

Zig does not require generics or preprocessors -- everything is written in Zig itself, not in a side-language. That's a huge improvement over C, and C++ in particular. Dynamic features in a compiled ...

Performance: Generally slower than compiled languages; performance depends on the JavaScript engine (like V8 in Chrome). Memory Management : Automated garbage collection. Watch this video on YouTube .