There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point ...

Programming is the backbone of modern technology, and understanding a programming languages list is essential for developers, students, and tech enthusiasts. In 2026, Python leads AI and data science ...

The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe ...

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 ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

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 ...

February 2026 TIOBE Index shows Python still far ahead, C strengthening in second, C# rising, and R holding the top 10 as rankings compress.

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

Overview Swift is ideal for Apple ecosystem apps, while Kotlin dominates Android-based app development.Kotlin 2.0’s faster K2 compiler boosts multiplatform deve ...

Deep learning may need a new programming language that's more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said today. It's not yet clear if such a language ...