The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Chromium, the open-source project behind Google Chrome, is enabling new support for Rust in its otherwise C++ codebase, if only in a limited fashion for now. Chromium, the project underpinning ...

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming lang… ...

L earning to program is a difficult skill. If you've ever opened a tutorial and thought, “I have no idea what's going on,” you're not alone. With a few smart choices and the right strategies, you can ...

A further boost to the success of C came with the publication, in 1978, of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. The book, a slim 228 page volume, was, even for the ...

The end came for Objective-C in June of 2014, when Apple announced the debut of Swift, a new programming language for building native apps on all Apple products.

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages.