Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

From a friendlier way to write WebAssembly to a visual language for machine learning, these 11 programming tools could redefine the way you write software. Was it Alexander Pope who said, “Hope ...

Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree that the ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched a new introductory path for Python programming aimed at young people. The new Introduction to Python project path has been designed to teach kids the basics of ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched ...

Sometimes major shifts happen virtually unnoticed. On May 5, IBMannounced Project CodeNet to very little media or academic attention. CodeNet is a follow-up to ImageNet, a large-scale dataset of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have ...

Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a console-specific tool-chain, and there’s certainly going to be some hoops to jump ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

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 ...