Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

So, you’re wondering which programming language is the absolute hardest to learn in 2026? It’s a question that pops up a lot, especially when you see all the new languages coming out. People often ...

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Daniel Temkin to celebrate the release of his book Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: a riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to ...

On October 24, Gray Area is pleased to welcome artist and author Daniel Temkin for the launch of his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs. Join us at the Grand Theater for a talk from Temkin, followed by a ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

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, ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...