Here are my picks for the six best programming languages for AI development, along with two honorable mentions. Some of these languages are on the rise, while others are slipping.

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is widely used in the field of AI development, particularly for statistical modeling and data analysis.

Java continues to dominate the developer landscape as the No. 1 programming language in use today. It remains atop the TIOBE Index. According to Simply Hired, since April 2009, Java jobs increased ...

Rust is meant to be fast, safe, and reasonably easy to use.It’s also intended to be used widely, and not simply end up as a curiosity or an also-ran in the programming language sweepstakes.Good ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College.That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

PHP: This language for programming web sites is incredibly common — some estimates say it powers one-third of the web. Big sites like WordPress, Facebook, and Yahoo use it.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

“Programming will be obsolete,” Matt Welsh, a former engineer at Google and Apple, predicted recently. Welsh now runs an A.I. start-up, but his prediction, while perhaps self-serving, doesn ...

PHP: This language for programming web sites is incredibly common — some estimates say it powers one-third of the web. Big sites like WordPress, Facebook, and Yahoo use it.