While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

CVS has recalled a number of sandwich and snack products due to potential listeria contamination, undeclared allergens and more. Many of these recalls were initiated by the manufacturer, not CVS ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

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Herb Sutter joined Citadel Securities in 2024 as a technical fellow, after 20 years at Microsoft. He details how the firm is using a new version of C++. Sutter also talks about how job applicants can ...

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 ...