Perhaps the only thing programmers value more than their own code is their programming language. Many an argument (serious argument) can be found on chat boards and sharing sites over the advantages ...

A while back, TheServerSide tackled the value of teaching Java as an introductory programming language. The author did a nice job of analyzing the language in terms of its features, its complexity and ...

C++ has overtaken Java to be the third most popular language in the Tiobe programming language index. It's the first time C++ has over taken Java in the Tiobe index and it's the first time since 2001 ...

Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn’t ...

TIOBE Index News (January 2024): Programming Language of 2023 Goes to C# Your email has been sent Keep an eye on Dart and TypeScript in 2024, TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen suggests. TIOBE Software ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

The creation of the C programming language was a massive milestone for classical computing. Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s, C was an easy ...

Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it's made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led ...