Overview: Python remains the top choice for scripting, automation, and penetration testing in cybersecurity.Rust and Go are ...

Forth is a hacker’s language, in both the laudatory and the pejorative senses. I’m not sure that it’s going to help you get “real work” done at all, and you engineer types might want to ...

The top language is given a score of 100, and all languages with lower scores are scaled in relation to it. C++ last year scored 99.7, followed by Java at 97.5, and C with 96.7.

Here are 11 newer languages that have found their niche. Some are DSLs, designed to do one thing and do it well. Others, seemingly, aspire to save the world. Even if they aren’t what you need ...

The top ten languages in TIOBE’s Programming Community index for August 2020. Image: TIOBE Speculation has centered on just why R has become more popular as of late.

Researchers at MIT have developed an easy-to-use “biological programming language” that allows genetic engineers (or just about anyone) to design biological circuits and “hack” the genomes ...

Research presented this week at the Black Hat Europe 2017 security conference has revealed that several popular interpreted programming languages are affected by severe vulnerabilities that expose ...

Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree… ...

The quiz only has a small handful of questions, but it does a pretty good job of leading you to a logical conclusion for what programming language is best suited for what you want to do. More ...