Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Over three decades of development, JavaScript has grown faster, sleeker, more capable, and much more complex. That’s good and bad. It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play.

What just happened? For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, and C as the most popular language. The updated rankings for October ...