We’ve put together a list of some of the best books to learn programming languages, covering everything from writing clean ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

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 ...

Large language models like GPT-4 and tools like GitHub Copilot can make good programmers more efficient and bad programmers more dangerous. Are you ready to dive in? When I wrote about GitHub Copilot ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

And so, I dove in. I've used many of the languages I'm spotlighting here, so I'll take a little walk down memory lane and include some stories about my experience with those I've used. While I haven't ...

Is it a meme, peak brainrot, yet another fleeting viral moment, or a sign of evolving language? Whatever it is, it’s made waves, even been crowned Dictionary.com 2025 Word of the Year. The irony, of ...

Over the past year, we've all come to know that ChatGPT can write code. I gave it a number of tests in PHP and WordPress that showed the strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT's coding capabilities. Also ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...