The Java programming language succeeded, he says, because Sun Microsystems put so much money behind it back in the '90s. Certainly, D still faces a long road to success.

During the past few decades, programming languages have come a long way. In comparison to the dawn of UNIX and C, when compiled languages were just getting their start, today's world is full of ...

See D. Dart. Web-based programming language from Google. Introduced in 2011, Dart was touted to provide greater performance for Web applications than JavaScript but has been used mostly by Google.

For a member of this family of object-oriented programming languages, D is a relative youngster. The language was created in 2001 as a sort of re-imagined version of C++ by Walter Bright, a ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking ...

Programming languages rise and fall in popularity over the years, depending on how well they're supported and adoption is affected by big shifts in technology like the web, ...

That's where programming languages come in. A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob. Throughout the ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

For example, Governor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) put out a call for volunteers who know the ancient programming language, something government officials have admitted that they aren’t necessarily ...