For a “dead” language, Java isn’t doing too badly. Java continues to top the Tiobe Programming Community Index, an almost boring feat at this point after holding this spot for roughly ten ...

The programming languages and skills that pay the best in 2019 TechRepublic The 10 programming languages associated with the highest-paying jobs all earned developers an average salary above $100,000.

Many programmers consider Pascal an almost-dead programming language, but it lives on in several ways. “Believe it or not, it’s still a very popular language in many parts of the world, ...

Ruby is among Top 10 programming languages. If a language is dead, it’s supposed to be somewhere deep down in rankings, isn ... Ruby’s famed Rails framework has almost 3,500 contributors on ...

Some programming continues to be very textual, but some is becoming more visual, which means the underlying computer language doesn’t matter as much. GUI builders are the easiest places to see this.

When I originally drafted this article in early 2023, I threw the classic "Hello, world" programming assignment against the 12 most popular languages in O'Reilly Media's popularity rankings for 2023.

The company’s own Hack programming language is among the four supported languages moving forward; it’s a typesafe variant of the open-source PHP language that works on the HipHop Virtual ...

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 ...

A senior cat who was rescued at death's door has found love and happiness in the most unexpected of places. Stephanie Baldewijns from Sint-Truiden in Belgium did not at first appear to be the ...

Here’s a dead-simple, Luddite-friendly explanation of why we’ll keep seeing new languages as long as there are people to learn them. (Hat-tip to our very own Node.js ninja Chris McClellan for ...