JavaScript remains the most popular programming language, but two offerings from Microsoft are steadily gaining, according to developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk's first quarter 2018 ranking.

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Microsoft is helping move us toward the future holy grail of quantum computing with the creation of a computing language that can run on a quantum computer. The company sees this as a fundamental step ...

TypeScript, Microsoft's language for building JavaScript at scale, is now one of the most popular languages with developers and hot on the heels of Apple-backed Swift. TypeScript, released by ...

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Forty-two years ago this summer a two-person company called Micro-Soft shipped its first product. It was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, one of the first successful ...

To accelerate the progress of quantum computing, Microsoft announced at its annual Build developer conference that it will open source its Q# compiler and the quantum simulators in the Quantum ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is ...

Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week. Visual Basic 10 and C# 4 are both due concurrently ...

BARCELONA, Spain, July 1, 2002 — Today at Microsoft® TechEd 2002 Europe, Microsoft Corp. launched Microsoft Visual J#™ .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers building applications and ...