The Java virtual machine provides a high-performance, universal runtime for a wealth of popular languages beyond just Java. In this article, we’ll look at the characteristic strengths and common use ...

The February TIOBE Index of the most popular programming languages is out, and while the work going on in the background of TIOBE’s calculations has changed, not much has shifted in the way of ...

In the cutting-edge world of Silicon Valley, not only do developers have to learn the most popular programming languages, they also have to keep up with new ones. GitHub, which hosts open-source ...

Groovy Shell brings to Groovy what irb (Interactive Ruby) and jirb (Interactive JRuby) bring to Ruby and JRuby respectively. I have written about both IRB and JIRB and in this blog post I look more ...

Over 80,000 developers from 181 countries have cast their vote on their favorite technologies and once again the Mozilla-hatched Rust programming language has come out on top. Some 86.69% of ...

PHP, a programing language popular for web and backend development, was once one of the most popular languages. Still, it's showing signs of dropping down the rankings, according to software-testing ...

Developers dread these programming languages, but which one pays the most? Your email has been sent A portion of the report ranks programming languages by their correlating developer salary. If you're ...

Languages that run on the Java Virtual Machine have lined up well with mobile app developers, alongside the usual code suspects. JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP and C# top RedMonk's latest list of ...