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

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In 2025, TypeScript overtook both Python and JavaScript as the most used language on GitHub. Developers point out that ...

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

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 ...