As iOS and Mac become more friendly to amateur programmers, learning to code and build your own apps has never been more tempting. And you don’t need to set foot in an expensive school to do so.

Now you can have Cython’s speed boost without its cumbersome syntax, using the pure Python syntax you know and love. Cython has long been one of the great secret weapons of Python performance, letting ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...