When a development project demands functional programming, there are many options available to the development team, from purely functional languages to multi-paradigm languages like C# and F#.

Systems programming also implies demanding performance and reliability requirements. Joe Duffy, engineering director at Microsoft, presented at QCon New York strategies for system programming in C#.

“The future of programming is less,” said David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails Web application framework and a developer at 37signals in Chicago.

Microsoft's C# programming language gains top billing as best language for 2012, according to a new ranking of programming languages.

Neal Ford, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at Thoughtworks, (in his blog post on December 5, 2006) calls this use of multiple programming languages “ polyglot programming “.

Launched two years ago, Xamarin says it already has 230,000 mobile developers using its software development tools, growing its developer community 300 percent in the last year alone, and adding ...