From Reddit threads to roundtable events, debating the merits of programming languages is not a new phenomenon. And while much of the recent discourse has centered around AI’s impact and whether or ...

Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code. Within the realm of these languages there is a wide range of how close the ...

Whatever area of tech you work in, innovation and evolution are integral parts of the industry. Developers in particular are best positioned when they constantly adapt and improve their fluency in ...

This is part of our Do You Recognize These? series. You may use at least one programming language regularly but you have probably used or learned about more along the way. Syntax and semantics of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

It’s safe to say that the age of generative AI is well and truly upon us, rapidly changing the world of work as we know it. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs Report, more ...

WebAssembly, or Wasm, gives developers a way to create programs that run at near-native speed in the browser or anywhere else you can deploy the WebAssembly runtime. But you generally don’t write ...

Are you a coder? Please take our new survey (it's short and fun) about how you use AI at work. HTML is deceptive. It looks easy. And easy HTML is easy. With a few tags you can write your name on a ...