YouTube programming tutorials are widely used by developers, yet their metadata (titles and descriptions) is often generic, incomplete, or dominated by promotional content. In this paper, we ...

While much attention regarding AI has been focused on developers using it to code, the impact of AI on software development goes far beyond code creation tools. Armando Solar-Lezama, Distinguished ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

The patched issues span core standard library components including archive/zip and net/http, as well as security-sensitive areas of the crypto/tls stack. The Go programming language team has issued ...

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...

Learning to code in 2025 feels a bit like learning to ride a bike—there are a ton of ways to get started, and everyone swears by their own method. Some people say to pick up a book, others jump ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Ada, a programming language born in the late 70s, has managed to break into the top 10 of the TIOBE Index for July 2025. The sudden return of this old-timer has developers debating whether it’s a ...

In the expansive world of software development, GitHub has emerged as the go-to platform for code sharing and collaboration, boasting a remarkable community of over 100 million developers. In 2025, ...

The big picture: The Go programming language was designed to offer a C-like syntax while prioritizing memory safety and security. Also known as Golang, Go has been growing in popularity among both ...