Development of GIMP has picked up speed in recent years, but now its first public release is back as a Flatpak, allowing the ...

What's the difference between Tomcat and Apache? It's a question developers hear frequently. But, when worded that way, it contains some misleading assumptions. Normally, when people ask this question ...

One thing that continues to annoy me is that if I say: I get an error. I'm sure that there are worlds where this makes sense, but why oh why make me spend cycles ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

October’s TIOBE Index: Python still leads despite a dip to 24.45%. C edges past C++ for #2; Java holds #4. SQL returns to the top 10 as Perl drops out. The October 2025 TIOBE Index saw a reshuffling ...

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...

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 ...

The Python Steering Council has decided to suspend a core Python developer for three months for alleged Code of Conduct violations. Citing the recommendation of the Code of Conduct Working Group, ...