First-place Python extends its lead while C# also gathers steam in the October 2025 Tiobe index of programming language ...

Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult to pinpoint.

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For instance, ...

TIOBE has published its latest Programming Community Index, which ranks the most popular programming languages based on data from the Internet. To compile the index, TIOBE uses search engines and ...

He had many firsts to his credit. Wikipedia says that the Z3, which he created in 1941, is the world’s first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer. For creating it, he received in ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most have ...

Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and ...