We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

Skills: Computer programmers need to understand algorithms and programming languages. Salary: The median annual salary for computer programmers was $97,800 as of 2022.

Universities and the Future of Programming Languages. Some universities haven’t stopped innovating when it comes to creating the languages themselves. Just over a decade ago, the Massachusetts ...

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BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964.

Python, meanwhile, is an interpreted language, which means that its human code is converted into machine code line-by-line as the program executes, enabling it to run without first being compiled.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described artificial intelligence as the “great equalizer” at London Tech Week on Monday.

JavaScript is the most in-demand programming language for developer jobs and one of the most versatile languages for full-stack development. Here's what you need to know about JavaScript.

While the answer of TypeScript’s creators is “yes,” academic researchers who work on similar programming languages tend to loudly assert “No, run-time checks should prevent such misapplications.” ...

What you may not know about computer programming is that most historians recognize Ada Lovelace as the world’s first programmer. She wrote an algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...