If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

Late last year RedMonk analyst Steven O’Grady wrote a post titled “A Return to the General Purpose Database.” The idea was that the market, seeking something beyond “vanilla” relational databases, had ...

Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company ...

" let's have a language that makes it easy to leverage popular libraries regardless of how they're implemented. Load a Python module, a JavaScript/Node module, a Java package, a .NET assembly, and a C ...