Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

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The Rust programming language is gaining in popularity among developers, according to the most recent update from software quality firm Tiobe's language index. Rust has risen to 20th position in ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Across Europe, skills shortages are emerging as a key challenge. The Council of the European Union says this is driven by demographic change, demand for new skillsets, and poor working conditions in ...

A hot potato: Generative AI is disrupting a lot of areas, especially the programming industry. For a while now, tech leaders have claimed that the technology can make anyone a coder, and that kids don ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang caused a stir when he declared recently that kids no longer need to learn to code - AI will do that for us. “Over the last 10-15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage ...

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 ...