JavaScript remains the most popular programming language, but two offerings from Microsoft are steadily gaining, according to developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk's first quarter 2018 ranking ...

Microsoft has widened its net beyond .NET in its stable of programming languages. Explore the top languages for advancing your career.

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming ...

Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week. Visual Basic 10 and C# 4 are both due ...

Microsoft Research announced new capabilities that it is building for its new Bosque programming language project created to support automated reasoning tools.

Microsoft looks to the future with the upcoming release of its own quantum computing programming language.

Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company's Redmond campus this week for its second Lang.Net symposium.

According to Microsoft, the newly added Python support will extend those features. The programming language can be used to create more advanced data science workflows than those that Excel ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser.

GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft last year, has released what the most popular programming languages on its site are.

Back in 2017, Microsoft unveiled Project Torino, a unique physical programming language that taught visually impaired kids the basics of coding. It was a huge step forward for accessibility, but ...

Microsoft has widened its net beyond .NET in its stable of programming languages. Explore the top languages for advancing your career.