Information technology may thrive on the new, but it is heavily supported by a programming language more than 40 years old.

… except there is another measure of programming language popularity out there. I’m referring to GitHub’s annual reports of the fifteen most popular programming languages on its platform.

Longtime leading programming language for systems development dropped to fourth in the Tiobe index for September, its lowest position ever.

Microsoft’s object-oriented programming language for .NET development had the largest increase in popularity, gaining on Java, C++, C, and Python.

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the ...