Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud ZDNet

Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it's made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led by principal engineer Mark Marron, who describes it as an "experiment in regularized design for a machine-assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle". The project borrows heavily from TypeScript and machine learning for software development in the cloud. The Bosque programming language aims to cater to cloud developers with knowledge of Microsoft's TypeScript JavaScript superset and Node.js, the widely-used runtime for executing JavaScript code outside a browser. In a paper Marron published last year, he outlined how Bosque's regularized programming model could lead to a massive boost in programmer productivity, on par with gains made after structured programming – a term defined by Dutch computer programming pioneer Edsger Wybe Dijkstra – took off in the 1970s and spawned a new generation of compilers and integrated development environment (IDE) tools.