We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

Nim is not the only uncommon language recently used to create malware. Last month, Kremez found that the new Vovalex ransomware was written in the D programming language.

During the past few decades, programming languages have come a long way. In comparison to the dawn of UNIX and C, when compiled languages were just getting their start, today's world is full of ...

For a member of this family of object-oriented programming languages, D is a relative youngster. The language was created in 2001 as a sort of re-imagined version of C++ by Walter Bright, a ...

Out in the Open: Man Creates One Programming Language to Rule Them All Stefan Karpinski was building software that could simulate wireless networks, and his code was a complete mess.

While the source for both are available on CodePlex, only the back-end is maintained there. The front-end component is straight out of the D 2.0 Programming Language Compiler. A word of caution, ...