“Learn to code.” That three-word pejorative is perpetually on the lips and at the fingertips of internet trolls and tech bros whenever media layoffs are announced. A useless sentiment in its own right ...

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 ...

The world of software development is rapidly transforming with the developments made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). These advancements are reshaping our approach to coding. In the past, ...

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 ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

With Tiobe’s February 2025 rankings, the publisher of the monthly index of programming language popularity notes that fast programming languages such as C++, Go, and Rust are gaining ground. But index ...

Jansen likened the popularity of NoSQL to the rise of dynamically typed languages such as Python if compared to well-defined, statically typed languages such as C++ and Java. While SQL was a serious ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Python continues its streak as the IEEE’s lead programming language for 2022 Your email has been sent Python once again headlines the list of the IEEE’s top programming languages for 2022, continuing ...