The other day, my friend Ned’s cousin asked Ned what he thought was the best first language for new programmers. The cousin didn’t have much computing experience, but at 15 years old the future was ...

The battle for the best programming language is raging. But who will make it out on top? Just kidding, they’re all great, but we did check our database of job postings from over 6,000 tech companies ...

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 ...

While not every programmer may follow the oft-repeated advice to learn at least one new programming language each year, most developers will continue to build their skills throughout their career.

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

With iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, and the the latest version of the Xcode developer tools, Apple has introduced a whole new programming language called Swift. According to Apple, Swift will make it a lot ...