Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Vibe coding, or coding with AI, is growing in popularity, but engineers say you have to actually know how to code to do it well.

On August 27, 2025, Lee Robinson, the head of AI education at Cursor, released a programming tutorial aimed at beginners. This tutorial is designed to help developers leverage AI tools to improve ...

Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models can help nonprogrammers skip the difficult details.

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...