We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

South African software developers looking to improve their employability and potentially also their salary should hone their coding skills in Microsoft’s C#, according to OfferZen’s State of the South ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since knocking ...

Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most ...

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 ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition that, ...