Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops ...

Today, using REST/JSON is about as familiar to developers as breathing. Practically every library, programming language, and DBMS in the world supports REST/JSON and consumes it natively and naturally ...

When your business gets big enough, you need an IT department to handle security. How big can you get before that’s needed? There’s no set size, but one possible measure is whether you still know the ...

Microsoft’s fast-growing language for .NET may be poised to overtake Java in popularity for the first time, Tiobe said.

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

By any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical Encyclopedia of Programming Languages lists just under 9,000. You’ve probably ...

If you run a small business, you don't need an enterprise-level IT army—but you do need serious protection for your systems ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...