Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE ...

Every software program is written in a programming language, and there are several languages for every major CPU series; typically an assembly language and a number of high-level languages.

TIOBE Index for April 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent C++ and C swapped places in the April 2025 TIOBE Programming Community Index top 10, with C++ rising ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the ...

This is the next in a series of challenges on your ability to recognize new and obscure programming languages. And you thought there would only be three of these quizzes. Well, I have a lot more ...

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity Your email has been sent The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar ...

In Programming Languages research, we explore the ways in which computations are expressed in written form. Our research focuses on three central ideas: the semantics of a particular piece of program ...