Programming languages shape how software, apps, and websites are built, making them one of the most important skills in the modern digital world. With industries shifting toward automation, AI tools, ...

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

Roughly a year after the effort was announced, the Apple-developed coding language, Swift, has just launched support for Android. With the Swift 6.3 update released earlier this year, the first ...

Python’s lead narrows again, C holds the runner-up spot, C++ returns to third, and SQL climbs back above R in June’s top 10 ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...