The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

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 is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI ...

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...

A lightning-fast crash course on JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language. From its 1995 origins as Mocha in ...

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 ...

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 ...