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

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 ...

Dynamic languages, most notably Python, are establishing themselves in the enterprise like never before. CIOs should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of Python carefully--and consider that their ...

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

Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.

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

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

Computer science continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and students entering the field must develop a blend of technical ...

Functional language based on ‘content-addressed code’ promises to simplify distributed programming and eliminate builds and ...

Overview: The Java ecosystem now offers a wide variety of ML frameworks - from lightweight toolkits for data mining to ...

Software teams at Google and other Rust adopters see safer code when using the memory-safe language, and also fewer rollbacks ...

JavaScript turns 30—and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...