In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

AI is changing the game for programming languages. According to a new report, Python holds the top spot while JavaScript drops. The reason? "Vibe coding" with AI assistants. Python holds the top spot ...

What is a Programming Language? Programming is the process of creating a set of instructions that a computer can understand and execute. These instructions tell the computer how to perform specific ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

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 ...

Since 2013, there have been metaphorically for programmers to build annual rankings of the world’s most popular programming languages. The rankings have traditionally relied on public signals such as ...