Programming efficient asynchronous systems is challenging because it can often be hard to express the design declaratively, or to defend against interleaving-dependent bugs such as data races and ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

Automatic control systems, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, real-time systems, reactive systems: All of these refer to computer systems that interact continuously with their environment, ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Understanding the difference between “communication” and “conversation” can determine whether a project stays on track or veers off course. In project management, “communication” and “conversation” ...

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 ...

Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming. Implemented as a Go library, ...

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 ...

Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of ...