The IT consulting firm Tiobe has named C# the programming language of the year 2025 in the controversial Tiobe Index. Tiobe analyzes the twenty most popular programming languages on the web monthly ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming. Implemented as a Go library, ...

Ada, a programming language born in the late 70s, has managed to break into the top 10 of the TIOBE Index for July 2025. The sudden return of this old-timer has developers debating whether it’s a ...

Attackers are exploiting a popular code package for the Ruby programming language in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing sensitive data from Telegram chats. The attack demonstrates how threat ...

A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has ...

Ruby’s creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), released the first public version of the programming language in December 1995, making Ruby just shy of its 30th birthday. It spread across Japanese-language ...

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and ...

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 ...