President Trump made higher education a focus of his second term, and his administration has targeted colleges and universities ...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

Since 2013, there have been metaphorically for programmers to build annual rankings of the world’s most popular programming languages. The rankings have traditionally relied on public signals such as ...

Programming languages have, almost since their inception, assumed a fixed syntax that is rooted in English for its keywords, with relatively few exceptions. Pascal has PROGRAM, FUNCTION, VAR, and so ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

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 ...

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of ...