Rewriting 500,000 lines of Zig into another language would be a gargantuan undertaking if done by hand. “A rewrite in another ...

July 2026 TIOBE Index puts Rust in the top 10 for the first time, as Python stays near 19% and the programming language ...

At the Open Source Summit in Mumbai, Torvalds discusses the pain and power of AI in the kernel, and why Linux no longer ...

For the first time, the source code of KSOS, backed by the US Department of Defense in the late 1970s and 1980s, is available ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...

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 ...

Rust mascot Ferris the crab welcomes attendees to RustConf 2025 in Seattle, where the community marked the 10th anniversary of the open-source programming language’s first stable release, and ...

Learning to code in 2025 feels a bit like learning to ride a bike—there are a ton of ways to get started, and everyone swears by their own method. Some people say to pick up a book, others jump ...

In context: Rust is a general-purpose language designed for building fast and secure software. Its strong focus on memory safety aims to eliminate most memory-related bugs and security vulnerabilities ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Varun Chandrasekaran, an Illinois Grainger professor of electrical & computer engineering, is among a team of researchers who have received a $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research ...

When you're writing code, you're laying out instructions on what you'd like to see on the app you're building or the website you're designing. But there are a number of coding languages to choose from ...