If you're a data scientist and need to analyze loads of CSV files for insights into, say, stock-price and market movements, the Julia programming language trumps machine-learning rivals Python and R, ...

A non-programming profession which writes a lot of code looks at which languages can solve its problems the fastest Lots of non-programmers seem to be learning how to program these days. However, one ...

For decades, fierce debates have raged over the benefits of different programming languages over others: Java vs. C++; Python vs. Ruby; Flask vs. Django. While often waged with fervor by computer ...

Julia enters TIOBE's top 20 programming languages for the first time, while Python, C, C++, Java, and C# maintain their dominance at the top of the index. Julia's entry to the top echelons of the ...

Two economists, S. Boragan Aruoba of the University of Maryland and Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde of the University of Pennsylvania, say that the best programming language for economists is C++. In a ...

Apple's used Objective-C as its programming language of choice for right around 20 years now, but it's brought something new to its yearly developer conference: Swift, a new tongue of its own making.

Google has released version 1.1 of Go, its open source programming language, bringing significant performance improvements. "We have made optimizations in the compiler and linker, garbage collector, ...