One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

The Hack language makes its first appearance in the Tiobe index's top 50, and the D language is poised for a big leap Hack, Facebook’s PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don’t expect it to rival ...

The top three programming languages – C++, C and Python – remain the same, while Fortran rises. PHP plummeted to position #17 on the TIOBE Programming Index in April 2024 from #12 in March 2024, TIOBE ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

TIOBE Index News (December 2023): Smaller Programming Languages Are Rising in Popularity Your email has been sent The rise of smaller languages may be due to the number of programmers increasing or to ...

In brief: Learning a programming language can be tricky, especially for someone new to coding. However, knowing the most popular languages may help some make a critical decision. This choice could ...

Since 2013, there have been metaphorically for programmers to build annual rankings of the world’s most popular programming languages. The rankings have traditionally relied on public signals such as ...