A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

JavaScript gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Just what you’d expect from a programming language that was created in a week. The JavaScript programming language has a lot of ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

JavaScript is the most-used programming language, according to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024. But the languages with the most promising growth prospects are TypeScript, Rust, and ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

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 ...