Overview: C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and ...

For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...

Python, JavaScript, SQL, and Kotlin remain essential as demand for AI, data, and web development grows. TypeScript, Rust, and Go continue rising as modern, high-performance choices for scalable ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

JavaScript is the most-used programming language, according to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024. But the languages with the most promising growth prospects are TypeScript, Rust, and ...

The Emory College of Arts and Sciences (ECAS) offers a variety of language classes, including French, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic and more. Nevertheless, their catalog fails to satisfy the wide number ...

If you want a programming job, you better ensure you're proficient in SQL, Python, and Java. That's according to the 2024 IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages report, which looks at what employers ...

A programming language is a formal language that specifies a set of instructions that can be used to produce various kinds of output. Programming languages generally consist of instructions for ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...