There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point a thousand times over.

Replit's new feature allows users to create publishable and monetizable mobile apps using only natural language prompts. As more vibe-coding products come online, some software companies could see one ...

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...

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 ...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

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 ...

French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused ...

JetBrains, the company behind the IntelliJ IDE, has said that developer workflows could be disrupted next year by Diffusion Large Language Models (d-LLMs) replacing the dominant autoregressive (AR) ...

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...