Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise ...

Move over Clojure, there’s a new kid on the block; Zig has emerged as the best-paying programming language for developers in 2024. That’s according to the latest Stack Overflow survey. The poll, which ...