WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a standard way to deliver compact, binary-format applications that can run in the browser. Wasm is also designed to run at or near machine-native speeds. Developers can ...

The all-conquering rise of AI in the enterprise has seen much use of large language models (LLMs). This week at InfoWorld, we wrote about LiteLLM: an open-source gateway for unified LLM access that ...

Facepalm: Generative AI services are neither intelligent nor capable of providing a meaningful addition to open-source development efforts. A security expert who has had enough of "spammy," ...

Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...

Formal plans for a Python that supports true parallelism are finally on the table. Here’s how a GIL-free Python will finally come together. After much debate, the Python Steering Council intends to ...

We have found a regression between CPython 3.10.8 and CPython 3.11 resulting in string concatenation to be significantly slower in loops on Windows 10. This is described in details in this ...

This guide explores what Python is used for, how it compares to other programming languages and developer resources for building skills in Python. With over 10.1 million developers using Python, the ...

Summit received numerous topic proposals from Python core developers as well as from members of the wider Python community, all are very interesting and important. The next version of the standard ...