I guess, then, it is safe to say that all programming languages are “dead.” When I enter the quotes-bound string “java is dead” into the Google search engine, I currently see 199,000 matches.

May 30, 2025 at 3:46 a.m. PT Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull.

In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really? , Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though ...

There's a new programming language that is capturing the hearts and minds of both Java and C programmers alike. Its name is Zig, and while it's not yet hit a full version 1.0 increment, development ...

If you want a programming job, you better ensure you're proficient in SQL, Python, and Java. That's according to the 2024 IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages report, which looks at what ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...