There have been some attempts over the years to put a number on the energy efficiency of specific programming languages, with a paper by Rui Pereira et al. from 2021 (preprint PDF) as published in ...

The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows year-over-year trends in programming languages based on search engine volume. In January 2024, the top three programming languages were Python, C and C++.

Future of work Do developers still need to learn programming languages in the age of AI? The impact of generative AI and low-code/no-code tools April 9, 2024 - 6:36 am ...

This magnificent programming language genealogy tree from Wikipedia, which was created by Maximilian Dörrbecker and which ends in 2008 so it is missing a bunch of stuff, gives a pretty good overview ...

Human language is notoriously imprecise and programming languages are the opposite. “Problem solving is the core skill,” renowned coder John Carmack, founder of Keen Technologies, said ...