Optimized apps and websites start with well-built code. The truth, however, is that you don't need to worry about performance in 90% of your code, and probably 100% for many scripts. It doesn't matter ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...

As Python’s popularity rises, its limitations are becoming more clear. For one thing, it can be very hard to write a Python application and distribute it to people who don’t have Python installed. The ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

In the December update to Python in Visual Studio Code, developers can experiment with a new preview feature that lets them run and debug Python code in the browser. What's more, developers have to ...

Reticulate is a handy way to combine Python and R code. From the reticulate help page suggests that reticulate allows for: "Calling Python from R in a variety of ways including R Markdown, sourcing ...

On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...