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, ...

Despite the surge, debate centred on the app’s Tamil name. Zoho’s new messaging platform, Arattai, recorded a sharp increase in downloads in September 2025, but the Tamil name chosen for the service ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

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 ...

Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

A Tamil Nadu minister has ignited a language controversy by suggesting that mantras during rituals and pujas should be recited in Tamil instead of Sanskrit. The minister questioned the allocation of ...

Margaret Rouse is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects simply to a non-technical, business audience. Over… Group step-by-step ...

To her children, Charlene Roberts-Hayden was like a character out of the book and movie “Hidden Figures” — just born a generation later, and working as a pioneering Black woman in computer programming ...

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor/author in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 30 years experience as an investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in… Artificial intelligence ...

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 ...