If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

December 2025 TIOBE Index recap: Python still leads, C-C# stay tightly grouped, while SQL climbs, R joins the top 10, and ...

Dynamic languages, most notably Python, are establishing themselves in the enterprise like never before. CIOs should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of Python carefully--and consider that their ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

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

Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.

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 ...

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, ...

Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages in software development, from enterprise apps to Android. If you’re looking to build real skills and prepare for certification, the 2025 ...

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Simula, an acronym for Simulation Language, is touted as the first object-oriented programming language created by Norwegian developers Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard in 1962 when determining how ...