Google's ChatGPT competitor Bard gained a new skill today: the ability to help us write and debug code in more than 20 different programming languages. As Paige Bailey, Group Product Manager at ...

Generating code: Generative AI can turn natural language instructions into functioning code, which essentially turns English (or whatever your native tongue is) into a computer programming language.

Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.

The C language is compact, expressive and powerful. It provides a programmer with the means to write efficient, readable and maintainable code. All of these features account for its popularity.

ChatGPT is well-known for its coding capabilities, but how will it fare when a dozen languages are thrown at it in one session? The answer: pretty darn good.

A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.