The results of the latest Rust survey are in. While concerns about complexity remain, the community's feature requests could soon be fulfilled. The latest Rust Survey was conducted in December 2024 ...

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 ...

The world of software development is rapidly transforming with the developments made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). These advancements are reshaping our approach to coding. In the past, ...

Move over Clojure, there’s a new kid on the block; Zig has emerged as the best-paying programming language for developers in 2024. That’s according to the latest Stack Overflow survey. The poll, which ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that today’s generative AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are just as fluent in Python, Javascript and C++ as they are in ...

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more. Java Development Kit ...

Some of developers’ favorite programming languages cause the biggest security risk for systems that require the utmost safety, according to the White House. The government sanctioned Office of the ...

Tech companies need to switch to memory-safe programming languages to boost software security, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has said. Programming languages such as Rust ...