NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Esteban Touma, language expert from the app Babbel about 2025's most mispronounced words.

For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...

Interactive Python modes are an easy way to learn new libraries. Scripting languages are easy to learn on their own because ...

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 ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Abstract: The article presents a universal programming language for setting missions for autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles, developed at IMTP FEB RAS. The main advantage of the developed ...

A truly general purpose programming language, GPL, is described which contains facilities for constructing (within the language) new data types as well as facilities for operations performed upon them ...

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Ada, a programming language born in the late 70s, has managed to break into the top 10 of the TIOBE Index for July 2025. The sudden return of this old-timer has developers debating whether it’s a ...