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.

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.

At 10, Scratch is a popular tool to teach kids programming. But its real glory is how it imparts lessons in sharing, logic, and hackerism.

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 ...

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 ...

JavaScript guru Douglas Crockford said during the Future of Programming Languages panel at the Strange Loop Conference that we’ve entered an experimental era of programming in which many new ...

No existential threat to the Rust programming language, despite major layoffs at its main sponsor, Mozilla. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Aug. 21, 2020 at 5:53 a.m. PT ...