US education non-profit the Khan Academy has completed 500,000 lines of code in Google's Go programming language to replace its backend server previously written on Python 2. Kevin Dangoor, a ...

The last few months have seen a dramatic increase in excitement around Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. While not new, recent performance improvements and immense increases in the size ...

To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

FULL STORY Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers' lives easier if that code follows the rules of the ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

March 2025 TIOBE Index: Legacy ‘Dinosaur’ Languages Are Making a Comeback Your email has been sent Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their ...