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.

Something as simple as printing the phrase "Hello World" can take up three lines of code in Java, but usually only takes three words in modern languages.

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, James Fransham makes the case for R being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.

When Dag Wolters and Ulrika Dellby failed to find any coding camps for their son in Sweden, they took matters into their own hands. In 2016, they created Hello World! – a coding camp aimed at teaching ...