If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

Major Update Brings Rust Bindings, Native UI with Slint, Archive Management, Closures, Subprocess Control, and ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

James Gosling learned a lesson in a recent blog post on the subject of scripting vs. strongly typed general purpose languages, and that is that readers of technology news are evil. Yes, I mean you.

You want to build a website or web app. So, what are the best web programming languages available, and why are they the best? It's a weighty question, and I'd like to emphasize -- strongly and upfront ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. There’s diversity in the world of programming languages, and often, the ...

Purpose: What you need to do, will determine what programming language (s) you need to learn. It is of the utmost importance that your purpose is correctly served by the use of an appropriate ...

Open-source programming language Python has become one of the few languages that won't disappear anytime soon. It's the top or one of the top two languages in most notable language popularity indexes, ...

Why shouldn’t those “interfaces” be humanely designed? Let that sink in. Programming languages are tools, designed by people for a specific purpose. What this study showed is that the design of this ...

Late last year RedMonk analyst Steven O’Grady wrote a post titled “A Return to the General Purpose Database.” The idea was that the market, seeking something beyond “vanilla” relational databases, had ...