A basic understanding of various programming languages can benefit anyone, even if you're not looking to become a master coder.

The Hack language makes its first appearance in the Tiobe index's top 50, and the D language is poised for a big leap Hack, Facebook’s PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don’t expect it ...

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 ...

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.

GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft last year, has released what the most popular programming languages on its site are.

Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and Photobucket are all built in PHP. WordPress, the most popular blogging platform in the world, runs on PHP and probably accounts for half of that 35 percent.

PHP is one of the most popular languages, according to Stack Overflow, Github, and RedMonk, but it came second to last in Stack Overflow's ranking of the 40 highest-paying programming languages.

PHP maintains an enormous lead in server-side programming languages Despite many infamous quirks, the server-side language seems here to stay.

Hack, Facebook's PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don't expect it to rival PHP anytime soon. In this month's Tiobe index of language popularity, Hack cracked the top 50 for the first time ...