Moderne has announced that its OpenRewrite code refactoring platform now supports Python, enabling organizations to modernize their systems, fix vulnerabilities, and run change initiatives over a ...

The other day, I was checking a Pull Request that a junior colleague had created using an AI tool. Although the logic itself worked as intended, we couldn't grasp the context of why that specific ...

Code refactoring is an important process in software development that involves restructuring code without changing its functional behavior. Refactoring is important for many reasons, with the main ...

The goal of code refactoring is to fight software entropy and improve nonfunctional attributes of the software. For example, refactoring can help make software code more efficient, resolve bugs, and ...

For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

One thing that most application developers and testers eventually encounter -- especially when working with complex applications or across large teams -- is code smells. "Smelly" code means that the ...

The regular monthly update for Python in Visual Studio Code sees the dev team adding "one of our most heavily requested features," a new rename factoring experience. The experience comes via Pylance, ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how ...