Huawei Technologies is set to make its self-developed programming language, Cangjie, open-source in a bid to compete with Java and Swift.

And none of those languages are very easy to learn. That is why I was so surprised to discover the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s newly expanded App Inventor platform.

The single most influential programming language today might be C. Invented at Bell Labs in the ’70s, it was one of the first high-level programming languages to have an operating system written in it ...

Half (50%) of them were found to be building AI-enabled functionality that uses Java, surpassing the use of other popular languages, such as Python, that are more culturally associated with AI.

Java has been in practice for nearly a quarter of a century and is still the most favored even when many new and potent programming languages have been invented. Advantages of Java: 1. Can run on ...

However, other programming languages were beginning to push BASIC aside. Pascal, Java, and Python became the languages that were taught in schools. Still, BASIC isn't dead.

PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.