Programming languages: This old favourite tops the charts again Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Feb. 9, 2021 at 2:42 a.m. PT C accounted for 16.34% of all searches that Tiobe tracks.

PHP: This language for programming web sites is incredibly common — some estimates say it powers one-third of the web. Big sites like WordPress, Facebook, and Yahoo use it.

In what might be seen as good news for Microsoft, its ASP.NET web development framework comes in at No. 2 in usage among server-side programming languages for web projects (even though it's not a ...

Learn how to use SQL with other programming languages, such as Python, R, or Java, to overcome SQL limitations and perform complex data analysis tasks.

In brief: Learning a programming language can be tricky, especially for someone new to coding. However, knowing the most popular languages may help some make a critical decision.

Julia, created in 2009 by MIT researchers, made its public debut in 2012 and over the past year has quickly climbed the ranks of the world's most popular languages. It's still not as popular ...

The vast majority of programming languages use similar syntax for a reason. For some reason, no one’s bothered to create an assembly language that looks like it. There’s no reason you couldn’t.

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, James Fransham makes the case for R being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.