The U.S. cannot win a contest of narratives by imitating systems that control speech. It wins by being what it claims to be ...

Based on theories from political economy and linguistics, the research argues that language has always been tied to labor.

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 ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

So, you want to learn how to code in 2025? That’s awesome! Picking your very first programming language can feel like a puzzle though, right? There are so many options out there, and everyone seems to ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are recasting the relationship between humans & technology. There’s a complete transition in how we search, consume, and execute information on the web. LLMs are no longer ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Every few years, the tools we use to automate work shift. In 2025, picking the best programming language for automation can mean fewer headaches and faster results. This post walks through how to ...