Microsoft has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...

Bernand Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI feature Bernard Lambeau, a ...

The ranking and others like it are meant to help developers understand the popularity of languages in a world where no one really knows what programmers are using on their laptops. IEEE Spectrum has ...

The ever-quotable Sean McGrath penned another of his trademark aphorisms this week: “The library IS the language.” By “library” he means the great edifices of reusable code that are, in their modern ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

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The most common programming languages on the Web include HyperText Markup Language, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Some are used in conjunction with each other ...

Whether you’re hoping to launch a new career as a developer or broaden your programming repertoire, knowing which languages are drawing attention can help you focus on the best options. This list ...

The patched issues span core standard library components including archive/zip and net/http, as well as security-sensitive areas of the crypto/tls stack.

This article reports the results of a survey about the teaching of computer programming and on-line searching of data bases taught in American Library Association accredited library school programs.