Maddy Petrovich, 14, of Wellesley, Mass. first started learning how to use the programming language Scratch when she was 10 years old. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) At a time when parents are eager to give ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. There’s diversity in the world of programming languages, and often, the ...

Coders choose programming languages for any number of technical reasons, but they also choose them for very personal reasons—and these personal reasons inevitably intertwine with the technical.