#programming languages
#programming languages

1 week ago

Java

Cangjie, a New Open-Source Compiled Language with Native Effect Handlers and Algebraic Data Types

Python

Understanding Programming Languages - Purpose, Evolution, and Use Cases

Software development

Functional Programming Isn't Just for Academics: Why It Matters for the Systems We Build Now

Software development

Rust vet making new Rue language with help from Claude

fromApp Developer Magazine

How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption

Different programming languages significantly impact energy consumption, execution speed, and memory usage.

Ada, other older languages vie for top spots in Tiobe language index

Ada could outlast languages like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran in popularity.

1 week ago

Cangjie, a New Open-Source Compiled Language with Native Effect Handlers and Algebraic Data Types

Cangjie is a safe, expressive, general-purpose language with algebraic data types and native effect handlers that generalize exceptions and enable dynamic binding.

Python

Understanding Programming Languages - Purpose, Evolution, and Use Cases

Programming languages evolved to address specific software development problems, improving readability, portability, productivity, scalability, concurrency, and safety over time.

Software development

Functional Programming Isn't Just for Academics: Why It Matters for the Systems We Build Now

fromApp Developer Magazine

Software development

Rust vet making new Rue language with help from Claude

Software development

How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption

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Software development

Ada, other older languages vie for top spots in Tiobe language index

Anthrophic's Bun team trials port from Zig to Rust

Bun creator Jarred Sumner is exploring a potential migration from Zig to Rust, but no commitment has been made.

DevOps

GitHub Enhances CodeQL with Declarative Security Modeling for Faster, More Flexible Analysis

GitHub's CodeQL update simplifies security analysis by allowing custom sanitizers and validators through declarative YAML-based data extensions.

Why we built Aegis-KMS in Scala 3 + Pekko and why it's a security argument, not an aesthetic one

The choice of programming language for a security control plane significantly impacts its reliability and security.

Data science

fromNature

Got bugs? Here's how to catch the errors in your scientific software

Scientific coding is error-prone, often due to lack of training, making debugging an essential but under-taught skill for researchers.

The two-pass compiler is back - this time, it's fixing AI code generation

Multi-pass compilers revolutionized programming by separating analysis and optimization, a model that could enhance AI code generation.

Hands-on with the Google Agent Development Kit

The Google ADK is a versatile framework for developing AI agents, supporting multiple languages and deployment options.

#rust

fromTechzine Global

Software development

Rust enters the Linux kernel, but its adoption is leveling off

fromScalac - Software Development Company - Akka, Kafka, Spark, ZIO

Scala

Rust Is Great - But It's Not Scala, and That's What I Miss

Software development

Rust vs Scala: a technical developer's perspective

DevOps

What's New in Rustup 1.28.0? | HackerNoon

fromTechzine Global

Rust enters the Linux kernel, but its adoption is leveling off

Rust is now officially supported in version 7.0 of the Linux kernel, marking a significant milestone for the programming language.

fromScalac - Software Development Company - Akka, Kafka, Spark, ZIO

Scala

Rust Is Great - But It's Not Scala, and That's What I Miss

Software development

Rust vs Scala: a technical developer's perspective

DevOps

What's New in Rustup 1.28.0? | HackerNoon

Scala's Growth Model - Building Inward, Starving Outward

Scala's ecosystem excels internally but struggles to attract new users due to structural and cultural barriers.

Dynamic Languages Faster and Cheaper in 13-Language Claude Code Benchmark

Dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript are faster and cheaper for AI coding tasks compared to statically typed languages.

Artificial intelligence

fromZDNET

The overselling of AI - and how to resist it

AI coding models succeed less than 23% of the time in real production code.

Java vs Kotlin vs Scala: Which to Choose in 2026

Java, Kotlin, and Scala serve different audiences and problems despite running on the JVM.

fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

6 years ago

Software development

Comparing Pattern-Matching Across Different Languages: Java, Scala, and More | HackerNoon

Mobile UX

Java for mobile app development: How to create Android apps in 2025 - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

fromZDNET

Java

Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

Scala vs. Java: JVM Language Comparison

Java remains a dominant choice for enterprise applications due to its robustness and vast ecosystem.

Scala introduces functional programming paradigms to the JVM, presenting a choice for modern developers.

Java News Roundup: Java Turns 30, Hibernate ORM 7.0, Embabel, jaz, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid

Java celebrates its 30th anniversary, highlighting its influential role in programming.

Significant updates in enterprise technologies with Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Validator 9.0, and the introduction of new tools.

Java vs Kotlin vs Scala: Which to Choose in 2026

Java, Kotlin, and Scala serve different audiences and problems despite running on the JVM.

fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

6 years ago

Software development

Comparing Pattern-Matching Across Different Languages: Java, Scala, and More | HackerNoon

Mobile UX

Java for mobile app development: How to create Android apps in 2025 - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

fromZDNET

Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

Java, though perceived as dull, is a crucial language for modern enterprise and web development, celebrating 30 years since its launch.

Scala vs. Java: JVM Language Comparison

Java remains a dominant choice for enterprise applications due to its robustness and vast ecosystem.

Scala introduces functional programming paradigms to the JVM, presenting a choice for modern developers.

fromArmin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

Java News Roundup: Java Turns 30, Hibernate ORM 7.0, Embabel, jaz, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid

Java celebrates its 30th anniversary, highlighting its influential role in programming.

Significant updates in enterprise technologies with Hibernate ORM 7.0 and Validator 9.0, and the introduction of new tools.

more#java

3 months ago

A Language For Agents

Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing. Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement existing languages in place but now I'm starting to think the opposite is true. Here I want to outline my thinking on why we are going to see more new programming languages and why there is quite a bit of space for interesting innovation.

Software development

3 months ago

Rust leaps forward in language popularity index

Tiobe and PYPL rank programming language popularity for July 2024, using web-derived metrics; Rust receives particular attention.

Artificial intelligence

3 months ago

Claude credited as co-creator of programming language Elo

A developer built the Elo programming language with Anthropic's Claude Code, producing a full expression language and toolchain in roughly 24 hours.

AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use

Rue is a Rust-based language aiming to provide memory safety without garbage collection, easier than Rust and Zig, leveraging Claude AI to accelerate development.

Ruby on Rails

fromRubyflow

Ruby at 30: Anniversary Reflections and Matz's Keynote

Ruby’s 30-year evolution emphasizes pragmatic design, community-driven growth, and anticipation for Ruby 4 while embracing imperfections as strengths.

5 months ago

What developers call themselves

The first computers weren't coded with words or languages, but by manipulating physical entities to do fairly basic calculations. "Programmers" would plug wires into sockets, set switches, turn dials, and spin rotors. It was, at the time, considered "women's work" because it was mostly clerical. But setting that aside, it was all mechanical in nature. These workers didn't call themselves "programmers" but "operators" because they physically operated the machine.

History

Web development

fromArs Technica

5 months ago

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

JavaScript became the dominant interactive web programming language after a ten-day origin, now running on nearly all client-side websites.

#ai-adoption

6 months ago

Software development

Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no

fromTreehouse Blog

Software development

What the Latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey Tells Us About AI

6 months ago

Software development

Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no

fromTreehouse Blog

Software development

What the Latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey Tells Us About AI

Python is consistent about modular arithmetic, like Mathematica

Mainstream programming languages' % operator yields negative remainders for negative operands, producing −3 for −3 % 4 instead of the mathematically expected 1.

7 months ago

C, C++, Java vie for second place in language popularity

Python leads the Tiobe index; C, C++, and Java tightly compete for second while C# rapidly narrows the gap.

#software-history

fromPythontest

Software development

Timeline of Selected Software Events | PythonTest

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Software development

Timeline

fromPythontest

Software development

Timeline of Selected Software Events | PythonTest

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Software development

Timeline

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Perl programming language rises again - Tiobe

Perl ranked tenth in the September 2025 Tiobe index, from 27th a year earlier, helped by many Amazon books and renewed Perl 5 interest.

fromDevOps.com

Sonar Surfaces Multiple Caveats When Relying on LLMs to Write Code - DevOps.com

Large language models generate syntactically correct code but introduce significant security vulnerabilities.

How Hash Maps Work | HackerNoon

Hash maps are data structures that map keys to values, offering average constant time complexity for insertion, deletion, and lookup.

#python

Python

Python popularity boosted by AI coding assistants - Tiobe

Python

Python 3.14 slithers closer with RC1 arrival

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Python

Python 3.13.5

Python

Python popularity climbs to highest ever - Tiobe

Python

Python popularity boosted by AI coding assistants - Tiobe

Python

Python 3.14 slithers closer with RC1 arrival

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Python

Python 3.13.5

Python

Python popularity climbs to highest ever - Tiobe

more#python

From Chaos to Control: Building a Standardized Dev Environment for 1,000+ Students | HackerNoon

ArTEMiS is a highly scalable, automated assessment management system, programming language independent, and expects test runners to produce results adhering to the Apache Ant JUnit XML schema.

Online learning

Why is 40-year-old programming language Ada hot again?

Ada programming language has entered the top 10 of the TIOBE Index in July 2025.

#kotlin

Python

Competition of data processing languages on JVM: Kotlin, Scala and SPL

Why JetBrains Created Kotlin: A Strategic Move in the Crowded JVM Ecosystem

Kotlin was created to address unmet needs in the JVM ecosystem despite the presence of alternative languages.

Python

Competition of data processing languages on JVM: Kotlin, Scala and SPL

Why JetBrains Created Kotlin: A Strategic Move in the Crowded JVM Ecosystem

Kotlin was created to address unmet needs in the JVM ecosystem despite the presence of alternative languages.

more#kotlin

2 years ago

Why Type Soundness Matters in Functional Programming Languages | HackerNoon

We specialize the rules for data types to the concrete types Pair and List, and the rules for codata types to LPair, Stream and functions 𝜎 → 𝜏.

Software development

2 years ago

What Functional Programmers Can Learn from Sequent Calculus | HackerNoon

A central feature of the λμμ˜-calculus is the treatment of evaluation contexts as first-class objects, which plays a significant role in term evaluation.

Philosophy

#memory-safety

Software development

NSA and CISA urge shift to languages improving memory safety

fromIT Pro

Software development

Want to build more secure software? Follow these key memory safe language tips from CISA

Software development

NSA and CISA urge shift to languages improving memory safety

fromIT Pro

Software development

Want to build more secure software? Follow these key memory safe language tips from CISA

CISA, NSA repeat call for memory safe programming languages

CISA and NSA urge software developers to prioritize memory-safe programming languages to mitigate security vulnerabilities.

3 years ago

Meet Mojo: The Language That Could Replace Python, C++, and CUDA | HackerNoon

Python is amazing, but it’s painfully slow. Mojo, launched by Modular AI, provides the same syntax but enhances speed and optimizes for GPU usage.

Scala

fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community

Yet Another Scala 3 Migration Story

The migration to Scala 3 was mostly automatic with minimal manual intervention needed, highlighting the efficiency of the process.

Web design

Dictionary of CSS Terms

A coding dictionary could aid learners in remembering syntax and usage of keywords in programming languages.

Qt bridges the language barrier gap

Qt's new Bridges technology enhances cross-platform development by enabling easy integration with various programming languages without leaving existing codebases behind.

10 Dead Programming Languages That Were Hot Just 5 Years Ago

In the ever-evolving world of software development, programming languages come and go with surprising velocity.

Software development

fromWIRED

Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun-Until They Kill the Joke

In a world where traditional programming languages reign supreme, esoteric languages like Brainfuck and Shakespeare enrich the coding landscape, merging art with technology.

Scala

fromTechCrunch

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch

"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that 20%-30% of the code within their repositories was generated by AI, highlighting the growing integration of artificial intelligence in software development."

Artificial intelligence

GCC 15 compilers arrive with Rust, C, C++, and Cobol enhancements

GCC 15.1 offers crucial enhancements in compile times, vectorization, and handling larger input files across multiple programming languages.

Python

fromNature

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the top programming language according to GitHub's 2024 report, marking a significant trend influenced by generative AI.

Node JS

4 years ago

Building a Multi-Language Monster Pipeline? Here's the Smart Way to Do It | HackerNoon

Unifying the processing of millions of events into a single computational graph enhances reliability and performance.

Node JS

fromLogRocket Blog

TypeScript is going Go: Why it's the pragmatic choice - LogRocket Blog

TypeScript is being ported to Go, termed 'TypeScript 7', reflecting a shift towards languages beyond JavaScript for tool development.

Web frameworks

6 languages you can deploy to WebAssembly right now

WebAssembly allows near-native speed execution in the browser with various programming languages as contributors.

fromITProUK