C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and Python bring safety, simplicity, and flexibility to modern IoT systems. Each language ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) unveiled a new logo for the organization that is designed to transcend one language family and expresses abstract qualities like timelessness and reliability. The ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

For many companies selling ancillary services or products (think insurance), the biggest problem when selling online is having their offering be surfaced at the right moment in the customer’s purchase ...

Versant, the Comcast-owned company formerly known as SpinCo, has a new programming team. The company has named six executives, all formerly of NBCUniversal, across its entertainment portfolio, ...

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 ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

How good are you at identifying the second set of programming languages? Some programming languages you might want to look at. This is the second Do You Recognize These for programming languages.

The US government’s report on unsafe programming languages has sparked significant discussions within the software development community. The report highlights the vulnerabilities associated with ...