The next year, another group used Rust to rewrite the part of Firefox that rendered CSS, a language used to specify the appearance of websites.

A branch of computer science known as genetic programming has been given a boost with the application of large language models that are trained on the combined intuition of the world’s programmers.

A software developer from San Francisco managed to do what no one else did before, creating a fully-functional two-way chat using only CSS and HTML, completely ditching JavaScript in the process.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

Over time, from the development of assembly language through more human-readable languages like C and Python and Java, programming has climbed what computer scientists call increasing levels of ...