Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For ...

This is particularly true for programming languages. For engineers, going with widely used languages means access to more jobs that require knowledge of those languages and more ready-built modules in ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

C++ is currently the fastest growing programming language in Tiobe's popularity index and it's probably due to the arrival of C++20.

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Java, C, and Python top the list of most popular programming languages now, but it wasn't always that way, according to the TIOBE Index.