Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

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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 ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

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 ...

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Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...

Dr. Andrew Freeman is a first year assistant professor of computer science at Baylor University and has introduced a new and unique aspect to his computer networking course. In this course instead of ...

Despite Python's meteoric rise to claim Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year for 2024, Java has quietly reinforced its position as a critical player in the global developer ecosystem. With a 2.3% ...