Does the world really need another programming language? Yes, say developers behind Zig. Here are five of the top features Zig brings to the programming world.

Julia, a zippy programming language for data scientists and machine-learning experts, has been updated with improved multi-threading, new library features, and tweaks to the build system. The ...

Kotlin, the top app programming language for building Android apps, gains a bunch of new features.

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Flix, an open-source programming language inspired by many programming languages, enables developers to write code in a functional, imperative or logic style. Flix looks like Scala, uses a type ...

The language was initially designed as an improvement on the C programming language that added features based on object-oriented programming. “C++’s success was obviously a surprise ...

If you stay up to date with niche software news, your ears may recently have twitched at the release of a new programming language: V. New hobby-project programming languages are released all the ...

Famous for easy concurrency, Go has become the language of countless cloud-native projects. Here’s everything you should know about Google’s hit programming language.

Go programming language is on the rise (again) as emerging tech and a new policy push give this language a boost.

Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts Vintage computing enthusiast Colin Hoad has released a gift to ...

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey asked developers about the programming languages they like working with. Here's what their favorite languages are.

Open source development tool GitHub released its annual ranking of programming languages. JavaScript claimed the top spot, a position its held since 2014. Most languages remained stagnant, with ...