If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course. Khan Academy, the wildly successful series of free ...

This week Microsoft revealed at its Build developer conference a Microsoft-made Linux kernel for Windows 10 for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2.0, giving programmers faster boot times for ...

Earlier this month, ITworld blogger Matthew Mombrea wrote an interesting post about which programming language is the best one to learn first (his choice: Java or C#). Not surprisingly, it generated ...

Software developers are in higher demand than ever — even interns at tech companies are drawing ridiculous salaries. Amid that mad rush for talent, companies are turning to $2 billion startup GitHub, ...

The web would be a much more secure place if not for the vulnerability built right into a common coding practice: pasted-together strings of database commands (usually for either SQL queries or ...

C scores points based on search engines, but JavaScript gets the top spot when it comes to repositories on GitHub When it comes to language popularity, C takes the top spot, based on an assessment ...

JavaScript has ascended to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, while Objective-C is on a downward slope. The index, which gauges popularity based on formula ...

I talked to a slew of computer programmers who entered the job market within the past five years about the languages and platforms they're learning and using, and there was one that came up over and ...