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Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical systems proves these “dinosaurs” are here to stay. Continue reading March 2025 TIOBE Index: Legacy ‘Dinosaur’ Languages Are Making a Comeback
Although most people would use C, C++ or MicroPython for programming microcontrollers, there are a few more obscure options out there as well, with MicroZig being one of them. Recently …read more Continue reading Writing an OLED Display Driver in MicroZig
While Python isn’t fast, it has enough entrenched popularity to get a boost from non-software engineers choosing it to learn programming. Continue reading TIOBE Programming Index News February 2025: Fast Programming Languages Are In Demand
[Jim Colabro] is a little underwhelmed with the experience of low-level debugging of Linux applications using traditional debuggers such as GDB and LLDB. These programs have been around for a …read more Continue reading UScope: A New Linux Debugger And Not A GDB Shell, Apparently
The top three points toward a winner for the year’s best, while the bottom three switch spots. Continue reading TIOBE Programming Index News December 2024: Python Maintains Its Lead
[Michael Lynch] encountered a strange situation. Why was compiling then running his program nearly 10x faster than just running the program by itself? [Michael] ran into this issue while benchmarking …read more Continue reading Is Your Mental Model of Bash Pipelines Wrong?
A sizable portion of the Hackaday audience groans and runs their eyes when some new-fangled Javascript thing comes out. So what makes Bun different? Bun is a runtime (like Node …read more Continue reading A New Javascript Runtime Fresh Out Of The Oven
Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t. Zig is a new programming language that seems to be growing in popularity. Let’s do a quick dive into what it is, …read more Continue reading Need a New Programming Language? Try Zig