Programming languages are tools that help developers communicate with computers and build everything from apps to AI systems.

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 era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

Microsoft’s fast-growing language for .NET may be poised to overtake Java in popularity for the first time, Tiobe said.

Python remains popular for data exploration, processing and engineering Younger developers are still using the coding language Only 15% use the latest release of Python, research finds An extensive ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Explore the origins, evolution, and significance of coding from ancient machines to modern programming languages in today's digital world.