To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...

Tiobe index of programming language popularity index has the R language for statistical computin back in its top 10.

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

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 ...

Generative AI is transforming software development by enabling natural language prompts to generate code, reducing the need for traditional programming skills and making English the new coding ...

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

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 ...

Programming model moves from managing thousands of low-level threads to working with high-level ‘tiles of data’ ...

The Zig Programming Language is officially quitting GitHub and moving its main repository over to Codeberg. The reasoning is ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

Microsoft recently decided to rewrite the TypeScript tool chain using Go. This has caused a stir as folks wonder why Microsoft chose the Go language instead of their own C# or even TypeScript itself.