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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners

For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...
InfoWorld

How to run R in Visual Studio Code

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...
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Open Interpreter update lets large language models (LLMs) run code in more languages

The software development community has just witnessed the arrival of Open Interpreter 0.2.0, an updated tool that promises to make coding and task management much more efficient. Open Interpreter lets ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
Computerworld

Why I don’t suggest JavaScript as a first programming language

A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...