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

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 ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

The ever-quotable Sean McGrath penned another of his trademark aphorisms this week: “The library IS the language.” By “library” he means the great edifices of reusable code that are, in their modern ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

Developers reported increased productivity, faster completion of regular tasks, and less time spent searching for information ...

Anthropic’s Claude Code is now available on the web, letting developers securely run AI coding tasks in the cloud through ...

As artificial intelligence models improve, the companies developing them are seeking more sophisticated ways to measure how ...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...

One of the perks of using older hardware is its comparative simplicity and extensive documentation. After years or decades of users programming on a platform, the amount of knowledge available for it ...