There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point ...

Whether you’re hacking together a side project, experimenting with a creative idea, or diving into a passion app over the weekend, the environment you choose to code in makes a big difference. This is ...

Even if you’ve never cared much about programming or the technical world, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the term “vibe coding” floating around lately. And you probably didn’t hear it from a ...

Most generative AI tools know less about R than languages like JavaScript and Python, thanks to how much training data is available for each. However, with a little extra setup, you can give a large ...

Critics call Garry Tan’s gstack just a bunch of text files. They’re right — and that’s exactly why the future of agentic development looks like Markdown. Folks are all in a tizzy because a guy posted ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang caused a stir when he declared recently that kids no longer need to learn to code - AI will do that for us. “Over the last 10-15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...