In the Mac stupid and/or cool thread I posted some AppleScript to fix an issue with the Safari web browser. Immediate comment: AppleScript sucks. No controversy there. I mentioned ARexx on the Amiga, ...

On February 12, something strange happened in the world of AI. Scott Shambaugh, an engineer at matplotlib, a widely-used library for visualizing data in the programming language python, discovered a ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

Currently not much of a programming language as it is a method of encoding text, but later updates should make that problem a little better. I made this a while ago, and only now decided to give it a ...

How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled Visual FoxPro. I’m glad I had the opportunity to contribute to improving the Ring ...

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology, after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to ...

IBM stock was down 10% on Monday afternoon after Anthropic published a blog post about how its Claude Code tool can be used to modernize software written in the COBOL language, which handles ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

C# was named TIOBE's Programming Language of the Year after recording the largest year-over-year gain in the index. Python continues to rank first in the TIOBE index, while C, Java, and C++ saw ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...