We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE ...

Programming languages would step forward once more in the 1990s, with high-level languages like Python, Lua, R, Ruby, and Javascript all coming to the fore. Many of these serve as the backbone of ...

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This is the next in a series of challenges on your ability to recognize new and obscure programming languages.

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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 ...

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Investopedia / Mira Norian An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware. Unlike machine language ...

PolyBench, a groundbreaking multi-language benchmark that exposes critical limitations in AI coding assistants across Python, ...