According to the developers, Codex can now significantly simplify the work of experienced programmers, as well as help to train beginners. Artificial Intelligence literally turns a stream of words into real software like websites or rudimentary games. For example, a user can describe the basic appearance of a site or its functionality by listing requirements like the location of menus or text boxes using plain spoken English, and Codex will generate a finished product based on its own “insights” into what needs to be accomplished.

In this variant, programming skills are not required at all in some cases. However, basically Codex will only work as an “assistant” or “deputy” programmer, implementing the conceptual ideas of the “creators” in the simplest way possible.

According to Greg Brockman, the technical director and co-founder of OpenAI, the new tool is intended for a wide range of programmers. First of all, it will allow them to get rid of monotonous repetitive work using libraries, functions and APIs.

Codex is based on the GPT-3 algorithm – created by OpenAI for generating “meaningful” texts based on analyzing many terabytes of text material on the Internet. However, it can provoke a negative reaction from developers who put free and open source software online. The algorithm uses additional data that was literally “shoveled” from free software repositories for subsequent analysis.

OpenAI has said it does not violate any copyright or related rights laws. Nevertheless, many people expect criticism from volunteers who created countless lines of code – the company intends to cash in on the efforts of the community, who posted their software to be parsed and used for free. So far, the programmers do not have a common or at least dominant position on the newly created tool.

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Huawei did not specify why it chose the name Cangjie for its programming language. However, the company said that it should become a link between the operating systems Huawei HarmonyOS and OpenEuler. The language should allow to write universal code suitable for both platforms. This was revealed by Deng Taihua, president of Huawei’s computing division, who said that the programming language will launch next year, but did not say when exactly.

Open Euler is Huawei’s lesser-known operating system for cloud computing. It debuted in January 2020 and is a proprietary Linux distribution that is based on the commercial EulerOS, which originated from CentOS. OpenEuler is optimized to work with Arm processors. HarmonyOS, on the other hand, is a consumer operating system that runs on smartphones and a huge amount of other smart electronics.

It is worth noting that Huawei is not alone in its desire to introduce its own programming language. Google has Go, which turned out to be very appealing to hackers, and Apple introduced Swift back in 2014, although Objective-C is still the core language for macOS and iOS.

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