"Vibe coding" appeared in early 2025 to describe the simple idea of programming with AI tools. So I tested a range of them — ...

Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops ...

He put real-time market information into people’s hands through an online service that surpassed the capabilities of most ...

Programming languages are tools that help developers communicate with computers and build everything from apps to AI systems.

B y any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...

What if AI-assisted development is less of a threat, and more of a jetpack? This month’s report tackles vibe coding, along ...

JSONC is one attempt, of many, to improve JSON. Other formats that try to do something similar include YAML and JSON5. Each ...

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in aiding developers with tasks like code comprehension, generation, and translation. Supporting multilingual ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

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 ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...