SAN FRANCISCO -- At last year's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled a new programming language called Swift. Basically, it was a new way for coders to put their creativity into motion.

A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have seen how a technological tool—be it a mobile application or a website—became their best ally when it comes to ...

Programming languages are like standards; the nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from. Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has ...

Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming language ...