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 ...

OpenAI and Tesla alum Andrej Karpathy wrote that there was no more "business as usual" in software, thanks to AI. AI agents are "extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow," Karpathy ...

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 ...

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that enables hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics directly in the browser via the HTML canvas. It powers tools like Google Maps, enables web-based ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

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 ...

Tech leaders have been adamant that artificial intelligence will forever change industries, jobs, and skills. That remains to be seen in most industries, but in the world of software engineering, AI ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about innovation, the future of work and remote work. The future of programming and AI is more nuanced than headlines ...