Since 2013, there have been metaphorically for programmers to build annual rankings of the world’s most popular programming languages. The rankings have traditionally relied on public signals such as ...

The December TIOBE index shows some interesting shifts in the popularity of programming languages. Particularly striking is the rise of C, which climbs from fourth to second place, while R also ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Abstract: Before software developers actually start coding, an essential requirement is to be proficient in a programming language. However, as an important learning resource, programming language ...

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 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Attackers are exploiting a popular code package for the Ruby programming language in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing sensitive data from Telegram chats. The attack demonstrates how threat ...

Two malicious RubyGems packages posing as popular Fastlane CI/CD plugins redirect Telegram API requests to attacker-controlled servers to intercept and steal data. RubyGems is the official package ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...