Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

Security researchers at Wiz Research have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Redis in-memory database that could allow an attacker to gain remote code execution (RCE) capabilities and take ...

The critical vulnerability allows attacks to escape the in-memory data store’s Lua sandbox and subsequently execute arbitrary code on the underlying server. The popular Redis in-memory data store ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Xeno Executor is one of the most popular third-party tools used by Roblox players to run custom scripts in the game. For those unfamiliar, a Roblox script executor like Xeno allows users to inject and ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does it mean to program?” For context, one of us had just completed academic ...

Looking to get into statistical programming but lack industry experience? We spoke with several statistical programmers from diverse backgrounds, and one thing became clear—there’s no single path to ...

Roblox is a game platform developed by the Roblox Corporation and launched in 2006; this platform includes a creation system that allows users to design and play games. The platform utilizes the Lua ...