The 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reveals global trends, highlighting the most popular languages, frameworks, databases, cloud platforms, tools, and high‑salary technologies, while also showing developers’ preferences, fears, and aspirations across experience levels.
This article offers practical guidance for aspiring self‑taught software developers, covering why software matters, essential foundations, language choices, core tools like CI/CD and DevOps, and strategies for steadily building knowledge and craftsmanship.
This article explains the evolution of programming—from machine code, assembly, and high‑level languages—to the software crises that led to structured programming, object‑oriented design, and ultimately the emergence of software architecture as a solution for managing system complexity.
This article explores the evolution of software development from machine code to high‑level languages, explains the two software crises and their solutions, defines system, subsystem, module, component, framework and architecture, and concludes that software architecture is a strategic response to system complexity requiring careful judgment and trade‑offs.
The May 2023 TIOBE ranking shows the Top 10 languages unchanged, with C# posting the highest growth of 1.98% and a near‑two‑percent market‑share rise, while C++ driven by C++20 is poised to challenge the Top 3, accompanied by notable shifts for R, Swift, and Ruby in the Top 20.
The article explains how to simulate nominal typing in TypeScript—contrasting it with the language’s default structural system—by using techniques such as private brand interfaces, literal and intersection types, and unique symbol‑based type intersections that let developers distinguish identifiers like UserID and BookID without adding runtime cost.
The April 2022 TIOBE index shows Python leading for the seventh month, explains how the index measures language popularity using search engine data and course counts, and highlights the surprising drop of MATLAB from the top 20, offering developers strategic insight for language selection.
This article introduces five emerging programming languages—Bhai-lang, Peregrine, Flix, Skip, and PolyCoder—detailing their origins, unique syntax rules, core features, and where to find their source code or playgrounds for developers seeking fresh, experimental tools.
The TIOBE index for March 2022 shows Python still at number one, Lua re‑entering the top‑20 while displacing Groovy, and several shifts among languages like Go, Delphi, R, and Swift, with detailed rankings and trends illustrated in accompanying charts.
The March 2022 TIOBE index shows Python retaining the top spot while Lua re‑enters the top‑20, driven by Roblox’s popularity, and provides detailed movements of languages such as Go, Delphi, R, Swift, and MATLAB, along with charts and a full list of the top 100 rankings.
Elon Musk discusses the importance of clear error messages, praises Rust's compiler advances, and argues that for peak performance on dedicated hardware, a custom‑compiled C solution remains essential, while his companies also rely on C++ and Python.
This article surveys the programming languages and technologies underlying a wide range of operating systems, user interfaces, desktop tools, databases, browsers, servers, and other software, illustrating how C, C++, Java, and other languages dominate different components across the software ecosystem.
The February TIOBE Programming Community Index shows Python reclaiming the top spot for the fifth time, highlights a shift from Alexa to Similarweb for data collection, and provides detailed rankings and trends for the top 100 programming languages, offering developers insight into language popularity and future considerations.
The TIOBE Index released its February 2022 ranking, showing the top‑20 programming languages with Python, C and Java each gaining over 1% and highlighting shifts such as PHP re‑entering the top ten, Go climbing to 11th, and detailed listings for positions 21‑100.
The article, the second in the “From C++ to Rust” series, explains how Rust replaces C++’s return‑value and exception error handling with the Result type, the ? operator, and the thiserror/anyhow crates, and introduces Rust’s lifetime system, borrow checker, elision rules, variance, and common misconceptions for developers transitioning from C++.
The article argues that despite widespread criticism, PHP remains highly popular and indispensable for web development, citing its long‑standing ecosystem, ease of use, massive market share, and the practical advantages it offers over languages like Python in real‑world projects.
Based on data from over 300,000 developers using WakaTime in 2021, this report reveals the most popular programming languages, editors, and overall coding activity, offering a clear snapshot of current developer preferences and productivity trends.
The IEEE Spectrum 2021 programming language ranking shows Python retaining the overall lead while C# jumps dramatically to sixth place, highlighting shifts in developer demand across web, enterprise, mobile, and embedded domains based on data from eight major sources.
The IEEE Spectrum 2021 programming language ranking shows Python retaining the top spot across overall and multiple sub‑rankings while Microsoft’s C# jumps from 23rd in 2020 to 6th in 2021, reflecting shifting industry demand and emerging trends.
Based on LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor data, CodingNomads ranks the most in-demand programming languages for 2022, highlighting Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, and others, and reveals average U.S. salaries, career prospects, and recommendations for beginners on which language to master first.
The article examines why Visual Basic .NET, Delphi, Perl, Adobe Flash, and Ruby are losing relevance, describing each language's history, the factors that led to their decline, and why they are considered the most endangered programming languages today.
This article surveys the programming languages and technology stacks behind a wide range of operating systems, user interfaces, desktop search tools, office suites, databases, browsers, servers, and other software, highlighting the prevalence of C, C++, Java, and other languages across the industry.
The CodeLani author shares a continuously updated catalog of 4,248 programming languages, detailing each language's name, type, and birth year, while noting controversies over included libraries and protocols and inviting contributions via GitHub.
This article lists the seven programming languages that command the highest average salaries in the United States in 2021, explaining each language's strengths and why they are in strong demand among employers.
The December 2021 TIOBE index reveals the top 20 programming languages, highlights notable movements such as Python’s three‑month dominance, Swift’s rise into the top ten, and C# as a strong candidate for the upcoming annual award, while also explaining the index’s methodology and its limitations.
A recent analysis comparing 27 programming languages shows that despite Python's popularity, it and Perl consume far more energy than languages like C, C++, and Rust, challenging common assumptions about performance and environmental impact.
On November 22 the Rust language review team announced a collective resignation in protest of the core team's lack of accountability, sparking intense debate about open‑source governance, prompting four concrete recommendations, a temporary replacement group, and broader reflections on Rust’s popularity and community principles.
The article examines three key design dimensions of modern AI platforms—choice of programming language, runtime environment isolation, and model deployment—highlighting how Python’s dominance, container‑based resource management, and efficient data sharing shape platform architecture and performance.
This article reviews the most suitable programming languages for artificial intelligence, explaining why Python, R, Java, LISP, Prolog, C++, Haskell, JavaScript, and Julia excel in AI development and outlining their key advantages and typical applications.
The TIOBE Index for November 2021 shows Python retaining the top spot while PHP slips to the lower end of the top ten, highlights notable movements for languages such as Lua, Dart, Kotlin, and provides detailed rankings for the top 100 programming languages along with historical trend charts.
The article examines the November 2021 TIOBE index, highlighting PHP's slip from the top ten, the rise of languages like Ruby, Groovy, Lua, Dart, and Kotlin, and discusses PHP's modern strengths, community support, and remaining drawbacks for backend development.
A SlashData survey of over 19,000 developers reveals JavaScript as the most widely used language, highlights rapid growth for Python, Rust, and PHP, and examines regional 5G involvement and salary‑driven job‑change motivations across the global developer community.
The article examines IEEE Spectrum's 2021 programming language ranking, compares it with Stack Overflow and TIOBE surveys, explains the methodology using eight data sources and eleven metrics, and highlights Python's surge alongside the enduring popularity of Java, C, C++, and JavaScript.
The article compares C++ and Rust for developers switching languages, explaining how Rust enforces move semantics instead of copy defaults, uses the safe Option enum with exhaustive pattern matching instead of nullable pointers, and favors lazy, chainable iterators over index‑based loops for performance and safety.
The TIOBE Index for October 2021 ranks Python as the top language at 11.27%, pushing C and Java down to second and third places, while highlighting notable movements such as R falling out of the top ten and Assembly language making a strong comeback among the top‑100 programming languages.
September 2021 TIOBE Index shows Python closing in on the top spot, needing just a 0.16% rise to surpass C, while Assembly, Ruby, and Go also climb the rankings, and the report includes detailed TOP 20, TOP 10 trends, and historical data.
A recent W3Techs report shows PHP maintaining roughly 80% market share among server‑side languages over the past decade, despite the rise of alternatives, and sparks debate among developers about the true significance of these statistics.
At the recent Linaro Connect virtual conference, Linux kernel maintainer Miguel Ojeda, a Google employee, detailed the ongoing Rust for Linux project, noting existing RFC patches for Rust infrastructure and a basic virtual driver, the progress of three compiler back‑ends, and the roadmap toward integrating Rust into the kernel.
IEEE Spectrum’s 2021 programming language ranking, based on eight online data sources and eleven metrics, lists the top 55 languages, highlights a stable top five with Python leading, and reveals notable shifts such as C#’s rise to #6 and HTML entering the top ten.
This article analyzes popular programming languages—including PHP, Java, C, C++, Python, Go, and JavaScript—to help beginners decide which language to start with in 2021, highlighting each language's strengths, job prospects, and suitability for newcomers.
This article reflects on a personal debugging frustration and then presents concise biographies of the world’s most influential programmers—Dennis Ritchie, Tim Berners‑Lee, Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling, Anders Hejlsberg, Ken Thompson, Guido van Rossum, Donald Knuth, Brian Kernighan, and Jon Skeet—highlighting their groundbreaking contributions to computing.
This article reviews the most suitable programming languages for web development, comparing JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, and Ruby, and explains why each language is favored for different aspects of building modern web applications.
The article explores the author's five‑year journey with Kotlin on the server side, examines common objections such as lack of time, perceived language hype, tooling preferences, hiring concerns, and mixed‑language codebases, and offers practical advice for teams considering a gradual Kotlin adoption.
The 2021 WebAssembly survey of over 250 developers shows Rust dominates language usage, AssemblyScript climbs, and respondents expect major impact on web, serverless, and containerized applications while calling for better debugging support and richer runtime features.
The article examines why Python struggles on mobile devices and browsers, discusses the BeeWare project's effort to run CPython on Android, highlights technical and resource challenges, funding issues, and Guido van Rossum’s perspective on focusing Python on backend and scientific domains.
The article examines Python's popularity in machine learning, the difficulties of running Python apps on iOS and Android, the BeeWare project's milestones and challenges, funding issues, and Guido van Rossum’s perspective on focusing Python on backend and scientific workloads.
The 2021 May survey shows China hired 429,056 programmers with an average salary of 14,926 RMB (median 13,000 RMB), a wide pay range, city‑level wage shifts, and a language market‑share chart highlighting Go at 6.7% and salary rankings across languages.
In a one‑hour interview, Python’s creator Guido van Rossum shares candid opinions on Rust, Go, Julia, and TypeScript, explaining why he finds Rust powerful, Go the most Pythonic, Julia a niche but interesting language, and how Python is learning from TypeScript.
Guido van Rossum, now a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, promises to boost CPython performance by up to five times without breaking existing code, detailing the team, funding, and security efforts behind the ambitious speed upgrades slated for Python 3.11 and beyond.
The article examines why many senior developers are skeptical of Python, highlighting drawbacks of dynamic typing, the Global Interpreter Lock, excessive whitespace sensitivity, and lack of backward compatibility, while providing code examples and comparisons with statically‑typed languages to illustrate these issues.
This article examines why dynamic‑typed languages such as Perl, PHP, Ruby, and Python are generally slower than compiled or statically‑typed languages, discusses static versus dynamic typing, and emphasizes that performance issues often stem from implementation choices rather than the languages themselves.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, publicly denounced C++ as a terrible language while supporting the inclusion of Rust in the kernel, sparking heated debate among developers about language choice, safety, and the future of low‑level system programming.
The article examines the heated discussion about whether C++ is obsolete, presenting TIOBE ranking data, contrasting opinions on its relevance in various domains such as operating systems, game engines, and web development, and offering practical advice for newcomers deciding if C++ should be their first programming language.
The article traces the evolution from primitive CPU operations expressed as binary switches, through the birth of assembly language and low‑level patterns, to the abstraction of recursion, syntax trees, and compilers that translate human‑readable code into machine instructions.
RedMonk’s latest ranking reveals the top 20 programming languages, with JavaScript, Python and Java retaining the top three spots, while languages like TypeScript, Kotlin, and Dart climb, and Ruby, Go, and others slip, offering a snapshot of current developer preferences.
This developer community weekly roundup highlights CCTV's new big‑data governance platform, RedMonk's programming language rankings, Chromium‑based browsers adopting a four‑week release cycle, PyTorch 1.8 with AMD support, the world’s first AI‑driven earthquake monitoring system, Red Hat OpenShift 4.7, a deep meta‑learning model for city sales prediction, and a CVPR breakthrough in controllable human image generation.
The 2020 Gitee Open‑Source Report shows a surge in code repositories, users and projects, highlights rapid growth of languages like Rust and Dart, underscores Java’s dominance, and details new community initiatives and features that reshaped China’s open‑source ecosystem last year.
This article surveys the eight programming languages that dominated 2021—Python, R, Perl, Swift, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, and Rust—explaining why each is popular, which developer groups favor them, and recommending the best learning resources for newcomers and salary‑seeking programmers.
This roundup covers Linus Torvalds' criticism of Intel's ECC memory policies, a Chinese real‑estate employee sentenced for deleting 9 TB of data, Pinduoduo's apology over a controversial Zhihu comment, Xiaohongshu's service outage, GitHub restoring access for Iranian developers, the latest TIOBE language rankings, average programmer salaries in China, a UK engineer discarding 7 500 bitcoins, and David Recordon's appointment as White House technology director.
This article examines the classification of mobile apps, the shortcomings of an H5‑based cash register, the rationale for adopting Kotlin over Java, a detailed overview of Kotlin’s language features and differences, practical implementation details, interoperability, null‑safety techniques, encountered issues, and the performance gains achieved after native migration.
Google will enforce a new Play Store rule requiring all Android apps to use its payment system from September 2021, while GitHub’s 2020 report shows explosive growth in developers, a reshuffling of language popularity, and a surge in open‑source activity driven by the pandemic.
The article examines why Ruby, Visual Basic, Haskell, Perl, and Objective‑C are losing popularity and argues that without community and vendor support these languages may fade away over the next two decades, while newer languages continue to dominate development.
This article benchmarks C and Rust by implementing five classic sorting algorithms—Bubble, Insertion, Selection, Shell, and Heap Sort—across three data sizes, analyzes the execution times on a macOS system, and discusses the nuanced performance differences and broader implications for language choice.
The TIOBE Index for December 2020 shows C retaining the top spot while Java, Python, C++, and C# follow, highlights rapid growth for Python and several emerging languages, and presents detailed charts of top‑10 trends, other rankings, historical data, and annual award histories.
Based on the December 2020 TIOBE Index, this article examines the top programming languages, highlighting C’s rise to the top spot, the shifting positions of Java and Python, detailed top‑10 and top‑50 lists, historical trends, and the year’s fastest‑gaining language.
The article recounts how Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, retired, reflected on his next steps, and ultimately joined Microsoft’s developer team, highlighting the implications for Python’s evolution, cloud integration, and the broader open‑source ecosystem.
The 2020 Q3 Slashdata developer survey reveals how the pandemic reshaped work preferences, highlights the rise of JavaScript, Python and Kotlin, explains price‑driven cloud adoption decisions, outlines who practices DevOps, shows what developers value in open‑source projects, and spotlights emerging technologies such as AR/VR, edge computing and machine vision.
This week’s tech roundup covers Python’s rise in the TIOBE rankings, a new 5G‑Industrial Internet security whitepaper, the affordable Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer, Apple’s upcoming Apple Silicon MacBooks, Snapdragon 875 specs, SpaceX’s GPS III launch, the Kornia differentiable vision library, and a novel sound‑event localization method using multi‑beamforming and multitask learning.
The article reflects on the pros and cons of JVM languages—especially Groovy—in team projects, examining readability, writability, IDE support, maintainability issues, and why newer alternatives like Kotlin Script may be more suitable for large‑scale development.
The article examines the September 2020 TIOBE programming language index, highlighting C’s rise to the top spot, Java’s decline, the rapid growth of C++ and Python, and discusses how these trends can guide developers in choosing which language to learn.
The 2020 Stack Overflow developer survey of nearly 65,000 participants uncovers global trends in salaries, preferred roles, programming languages, education, gender balance, and technology adoption, offering valuable benchmarks for developers and employers alike.
Analyzing recent Stack Overflow surveys and GitHub trends, this article explains why Go's efficiency, simplicity, and rising popularity make it a strong contender for the best backend programming language in 2021, even as JavaScript and Python dominate the market.
Analyzing recent Stack Overflow and GitHub data, this article predicts that Python, JavaScript (Node.js), and Go will be the three most popular programming languages in 2021, explaining their broad applications, ease of use, and strong community support that drive their rising demand.
The article examines Python's rapid rise since its 1991 debut, highlighting its free, cross‑platform nature, strong community support, growing popularity on StackOverflow, and expanding job market, while questioning whether it will dominate future software testing, AI, and machine‑learning development.
Python’s versatility makes it essential across fields—from AI and cloud computing to web development, web scraping, game creation, and data analysis—offering high demand, lucrative careers for IT professionals and productivity boosts for non‑IT workers, as illustrated by real‑world examples and industry trends.
After years of using Python for AI and data science, the author examines its flexibility drawbacks and argues that Go+, with its static typing and concise syntax, can address Python’s limitations, offering comparable ease for tensor operations, potential for a new deep‑learning front‑end language.
After mastering basic software testing, this article analyzes why learning a programming language—especially Java or Python—is essential for test automation engineers, compares their strengths, career prospects, and practical usage, and offers guidance on choosing the right language for beginners and career transitions.
The June 2020 TIOBE Index reveals Rust entering the top‑20 for the first time, highlights shifts among the top ten languages, presents rankings for positions 1‑20 and 21‑50, and includes historical trends and a “celebrity” list of languages from 2003‑2019.
The 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reveals global trends in programming language popularity, developer roles, experience levels, education, gender diversity, salary distribution, employment status, and work habits, highlighting the impact of the pandemic and the growing importance of DevOps and AI-related technologies.
The 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, with nearly 65,000 respondents, reveals trends in developer occupations, experience, education, most used programming languages, web frameworks, databases, platforms, favorite versus dreaded technologies, and salary insights across roles and regions.
Based on responses from nearly 65,000 developers worldwide, the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey highlights shifting popularity of languages like Rust and TypeScript, rising DevOps salaries, preferred frameworks, database choices, work habits, and demographic insights, offering a comprehensive snapshot of the current software development landscape.
The article examines the historical development of PC and mobile operating systems, explains why China has not produced a mainstream OS or programming language, and argues that future opportunities will depend on aligning technological timing, geographic advantages, and human resources within China's growing IT ecosystem.
This tutorial walks you through using Python to crawl the TIOBE index from 2001 to the present, clean the data into a nested dictionary, and create dynamic visualizations that reveal how programming language popularity has shifted over two decades.
This article examines seven modern programming languages—Rust, Go, Kotlin, TypeScript, Swift, Dart, and Julia—detailing their key features, typical use cases, popularity trends, and why developers should consider learning them to stay competitive in today's software landscape.
The 2020 developer internet survey reveals that Go tops the list of languages developers want to learn, data science dominates interest areas, security and IoT follow, and remote/online work and learning are increasingly preferred, while experienced developers show limited expertise in machine learning.
This article presents a data-driven analysis of programming language popularity and salary distribution in the Chinese job market, featuring a detailed table of average and median wages, headcount, and percentage share for each language, along with a pie‑chart visualization.
The May 2020 TIOBE index shows C reclaiming the top spot over Java, while languages like Rust, MATLAB, and Scratch rise, R remains stable, and Objective‑C continues to fall, reflecting pandemic‑driven shifts toward embedded, data‑science, and educational programming.
The April 2020 TIOBE index reveals Scratch topping the list, rapid growth for SQL, Go, Swift and R, while Delphi drops out of the top 20, highlighting shifting trends in programming language popularity and the rising importance of visual coding for children.
A recent open‑source vulnerability report reveals that C accounts for over 30% of reported flaws while PHP’s share surged to 27%, highlighting the prevalence of XSS attacks and emphasizing the need for better coding practices across all languages.
The article predicts the demise of several once‑popular programming languages—Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, Adobe Flash/AIR, and Delphi’s Object Pascal—by examining their historical rise, current decline, and providing sample "Goodbye World" code snippets to illustrate their fading relevance.
This article ranks the seven most popular programming languages for test automation in 2020—Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, PHP, and SmashTest—detailing their strengths, community support, and key frameworks to help you select the best language for your automation projects.
RedMonk’s Q1 2020 programming language rankings, based on GitHub and Stack Overflow activity, show Python climbing to the top two, TypeScript entering the top ten, R jumping ahead, Rust stalling, Go barely moving, and Dart surging thanks to Flutter’s popularity.
The article forecasts that Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, Adobe Flash/AIR (ActionScript), and Delphi's Object Pascal are each facing extinction as developers shift toward newer, more supported programming languages, illustrating the decline with code examples and historical context.
The 2020 HackerRank Developer Skills Report, the largest of its kind, surveys over 116,000 developers worldwide, revealing hiring preferences for bootcamp graduates, demand for full‑stack and backend talent, top programming languages, salary disparities, and developers’ work‑life habits.
The TIOBE Programming Community Index, updated monthly, measures programming language popularity using data from global engineers, courses, and major search engines, helping developers assess skill relevance and choose appropriate languages, while emphasizing that the ranking reflects popularity rather than language quality.
An overview of ten influential programming languages—from Java and C to Python and JavaScript—detailing their origins, key designers, and lasting impact on software development, illustrating why these languages have endured and continue to dominate various domains such as web, systems, and data processing.
This article chronicles Anders Hejlsberg's remarkable career—from creating Turbo Pascal and Delphi to designing C# and TypeScript—highlighting his influence on programming language design, IDE development, and the evolution of modern software engineering.
Dice Insights analyzed TIOBE, RedMonk rankings and its own job database to highlight five programming languages—Swift, Kotlin, Python, Groovy, and TypeScript—that are projected to experience rapid growth and increased adoption in the coming years.
This article forecasts the 2020 software development landscape, highlighting the rise of cloud adoption, Kubernetes, micro‑services, Python, Java, emerging languages like Rust and Kotlin, JavaScript frameworks, API standards, SQL dominance, big‑data engines Spark and Flink, and the growing impact of WebAssembly.
This article analyzes the 2019 programming language popularity by combining TIOBE, PYPL, and Stack Overflow data, highlighting the top languages, emerging trends such as Go and Kotlin, and discussing market demand and salary implications for developers.
