Mathly for Lua is a Lua module that turns Lua into a tiny, portable, free but powerful MATLAB and more. It provides a group of commonly used MATLAB functions and features, including linspace, zeros, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kotlin is a modern language that has seen a groundswell of developer enthusiasm over the last few years. This popularity is thanks in large part to its highly expressive syntax, which includes ...

CHANDLER, AZ (AZFamily) — A daycare in the East Valley is teaching children a second language from a very young age. Babies and toddlers are soaking up the basics of sign language at The Learning ...

The critical vulnerability allows attacks to escape the in-memory data store’s Lua sandbox and subsequently execute arbitrary code on the underlying server. The popular Redis in-memory data store ...

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 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Modern embedded systems are evolving quickly, demanding innovative approaches to software development across various domains. Selecting the right programming language is crucial for balancing ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...