How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? This question was originally answered on Quora by Keno Fischer.

While the code might look like C, it’s actually a language specifically tailored for developing games on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

MIT researchers have taken several stabs at creating programming languages that "auto-complete". One example is a programming language called Sketch, developed by Armando Solar-Lezama, an ...

Fresh from ETH Zurich comes the new Silq programming language. They also have submitted a paper to the PLDI 2020 conference on why they feel that it is the best quantum programming language so far ...

Stack Overflow surveyed over 73,000 developers to find the highest-paying programming languages, including Clojure, Elixir, and Scala.

In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.

As 2023 begins, here are five programming languages that I expect to remain or emerge as the most in-demand based on my experience as a leader in a company that develops and designs software ...

But you could also make the computer do something interesting and useful with just a few lines of simple code, shortly after you’d encountered the language for the first time.

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings ...