Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

TIOBE Index for March 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent Python keeps the top spot as its rating dips again, C climbs further in second, and the bottom stays ...

Law promotes Mandarin as primary language of education and government China has 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, including Han Chinese Han, who speak Mandarin, make up 91% of the population ...