As we've discussed, lower-level languages are more efficient on their own, but as you're calculating programming language efficiency, make sure to include energy consumption from the compiler ...

Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability—if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer.

Let me also make clear that, when I talk about the best "web programming languages," I am not focused on markup and stylesheet languages, like HTML and CSS. They are essential to know if you do web ...

WhiteHat Security, a Web security company, recently announced the latest edition of the “WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report,” which takes a deeper look into the security of a number ...

The range of programming languages is wide, with some languages used in specific contexts, but some more general. For example, Java can implement applications for both the Web and the desktop.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

From blazing-fast web apps to Python data science in the browser, these programming language and compiler projects offer different twists on the promise of WebAssembly. Today’s web applications ...

The new language is Curl. Its creators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim that the fledgling technology can speed up the delivery of applications over the web by up to 10 times.

Computerworld India offers some help choosing which programming language to learn first, or next, from among the hundreds available.

As 2011 approaches, eWEEK takes a look at the top 18 programming languages for developers going into the new year. This list is filled with the tried and true. In some instances, some observers ...

Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability — if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer.