Python has entered the top three for the first time in the TIOBE programming language index, surpassed only by C and Java. According to TIOBE, Python is now becoming "increasingly ubiquitous" and a ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up […] ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s brief surge.

Memory management can be challenge enough on traditional data sets, but when big data enters the picture, things can slow way, way down. A new programming language announced by MIT this week aims to ...

Modular Inc. today announced the general availability of its Mojo programming language, which promises to speed up artificial intelligence applications by multiple orders of magnitude. The language is ...

Open source language aims to be as easy to use as Python, but with easier concurrency, user-customizeable syntax, and PyPy-level speeds Lever, a new open source programming language now in its 0.8.0 ...

Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language. Swift is now tied ...