Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

The future of programming will likely involve a collaboration between human developers and AI-powered tools.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

Though I did find it fascinating to learn to think the way computers do, there seemed to be something fundamentally backward about programming a computer that I just couldn’t get over: Wasn’t ...