Future of work Why Go programming language is on the rise (again) Go set to solidify its status as a top language for devs August 13, 2024 - 7:55 am ...

May 30, 2025 at 3:46 a.m. PT Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull.

Java has been a programming stalwart since its inception in 1995, and remains one of the most popular languages for web applications and big data processing, however, Kotlin, a relatively new kid ...

By 2009, the year of Go’s debut, the youngest of mainstream languages were mostly still from 1995—a true annus mirabilis, when Ruby, PHP, Java, and JavaScript all came out.