If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement of discovering, in a dusty University of Utah storeroom, a tape labelled ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity Your email has been sent The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

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 ...