The CodeProject website went offline in March 2026

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello

If you’re not familiar with CodeProject, it was essentially a place where—whenever you searched Google for a programming question—you would often find a CodeProject article discussing the topic, usually with full source code attached.

Back in 2016, when version 1.0 of the Ring programming language was released, I wrote several CodeProject articles highlighting its key features. Those articles, along with tens of thousands of views, helped many developers discover Ring for the first time.

CodeProject was once a very popular website, but it went offline in March 2026 (just a few months ago). Here are some of the Ring articles preserved through the Wayback Machine.

The Ring Programming Language - CodeProject

Squares Puzzle using RingAllegro- CodeProject

Natural Language Programming in the Ring Programming Language- CodeProject

Using the Natural Language Programming Library (NLPL) in the Ring Programming Language

The Declarative Approach of the Ring Programming Language - CodeProject

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Mahmoud,

These articles were my first encounter with the language when I was living in Canada...

Thank you for sharing them again.

Today I migrated my codebases from Github to Codeberg which I found to be more sovereign and open then Microsoft's Github.

All the best,

Mansour

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mansour 

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mounir IDRASSI]

Hi Mahmoud,

Thank you sharing the info. The disappearance of CodeProject is a big loss because the quality content it hosted. 
I learned a lot from the articles there and from the discussion with their authors on the site.

I'm glad your Ring articles could be preserved. But honestly, I feel bad for the new generation which cannot experience rich programming interactions like the ones offered by CodeProject. Now, they are into AI so much that they forget that it is us humans that built all of this thanks to rich interactions. In 10 years our generation will be looked upon like dinosaurs!!

@Mansour: thank you for sharing Codeberg, I was not aware of it. I will give it a try. Github has become bloated.

Regards,

Mounir IDRASSI

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[The Future of Programming]

Hello Mounir

I agree with you, It was a wonderful resource of knowledge and encouraged many people to write very useful articles. 

Greetings, 

Mahmoud

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[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Mounir, Mahmoud,

Mounir raised a profound question about the future of programming in our role as hybrid generation that has been instructed in textual coding and the new gen for which coding became a matter of a dialog experience with an LLM.

It's clear that the industry is pushing towards illuminating coding and turning it to a past story. But the real world of software projects says the contrary : the real expertise of those who know traditional coding is always needed, especially in this era of bloated codebases generated by AIs.

If I had to give an advice to any serious young developer : master AI as it should be (not only prompting, but everything related to the harness engineering and agentic software architecture of LLM-based solutions), but keep your skills of writing textual code, scripts, and programs in structural programming languages like Ring, Python, etc, to keep your agentic solution hybrid, well governed, efficient, maintainable and cost-competitive compared to fully vibed AI apps.

The future of enterprise and critical domain AI software solutions is not what Anthropic or OpenAI CEOs would promise, it's what real world developers who are working with real enterprise customers (and I happen to be one of them) will say.

PS: Concerning Codeberg, I was observing it for a while, and took my decision when the Zig Foundation decided to move there (since I'm using Zig for an ongoing project of an agentic compiler called Zin that I needed for my AI-based projects).

All the best,

Mansour

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[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mahmoud,

Yes, it was a very useful website!

Thanks for sharing the Wayback URLs for the past Ring articles on CodeProject!

@Mansour: Yes, I saw that Zig (and perhaps Ghostty in the future) also moved to Codeberg for the same reason. A few weeks ago, my GitHub account was banned for no reason, so I decided to move my projects there. However, after they unbanned it, I decided to create mirrors of my projects on Codeberg in the future.

Best regards,
Youssef

[The Future of Programming]

Hello Youssef 

You are welcome :D

Greetings, 

Mahmoud

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