Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

The demand for programming skills in 2026 centres around versatility, performance, and scalability as companies ramp up AI, cloud, and web services. Languages that combine ease of learning with ...

The Science Advances publication details Cellgorithm™, a CRISPR-based technology that gives researchers greater control over gene activity and sets the stage for future applications in stem cell ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Python, JavaScript, SQL, and Kotlin remain essential as demand for AI, data, and web development grows. TypeScript, Rust, and Go continue rising as modern, high-performance choices for scalable ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia. “I write to request information about ...

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 ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

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 ...

Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages, while the US is second with 327 and Japan is third with 324. Other common words make their appearance as one looks down the list ...

Abstract: Domain-specific programming languages such as P4 enable flexible and high-performance packet processing for programming network data planes. However, many P4 programs remain monolithic, ...