Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

JavaScript remains the most popular programming language, but two offerings from Microsoft are steadily gaining, according to developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk's first quarter 2018 ranking.

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Perl may be increasing in popularity because Perl 5 is consistently updated, but the exact reason for its rise is difficult ...

Forty-two years ago this summer a two-person company called Micro-Soft shipped its first product. It was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, one of the first successful ...

TypeScript, Microsoft's language for building JavaScript at scale, is now one of the most popular languages with developers and hot on the heels of Apple-backed Swift. TypeScript, released by ...

Microsoft is helping move us toward the future holy grail of quantum computing with the creation of a computing language that can run on a quantum computer. The company sees this as a fundamental step ...

Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week. Visual Basic 10 and C# 4 are both due concurrently ...

Back in 2017, Microsoft unveiled Project Torino, a unique physical programming language that taught visually impaired kids the basics of coding. It was a huge step forward for accessibility, but it ...

Since 2014, GitHub's annual State of the Octoverse report has tracked various developer trends. That includes the top 10 programming languages each year, which, in 2020, included Java, Python, and C.