Learning and remembering how to use APIs is difficult. While code-completion tools can
recommend API methods, browsing a long list of API method names and their …

Enabled by a rich ecosystem of Machine Learning (ML) libraries, programming using
learned models, ie, Software-2.0, has gained substantial adoption. However, we do not …

Some programming languages become widely popular while others fail to grow beyond
their niche or disappear altogether. This paper uses survey methodology to identify the …

Sometimes debates on programming languages are more religious than scientific.
Questions about which language is more succinct or efficient, or makes developers more …

API libraries provide thousands of APIs, and are essential in daily programming tasks. To
understand their usages, it has long been a hot research topic to mine specifications that …

Mixing the actor model with other concurrency models in a single program can break the
actor abstraction. This increases the chance of creating deadlocks and data races—two …

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which encapsulate the implementation of
specific functions as interfaces, greatly improve the efficiency of modern software …

Running compute-intensive or blocking I/O operations in the UI event thread of smartphone
apps can severely degrade responsiveness. Despite the fact that Android supports writing …

Nowadays, most software use multiple programming languages to implement certain
functionalities based on the strengths and weaknesses of different languages. Researchers …

Multi-core systems are any computing device nowadays and stream processing applications
are becoming recurrent workloads, demanding parallelism to achieve the desired quality of …