The sixth edition of the C# language specification allows for more openness and community participation in changes to the language, Microsoft said. Ecma International has approved the sixth edition of ...

C# was named TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year, while the index also pointed to a potential rise for TypeScript. Here’s how the latest rankings compare across TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL.

The Microsoft-backed .NET Foundation has conducted its first web application developer survey and says the results suggest its Blazor framework for building mobile apps in C# and .NET is "taking off".

With highly expressive syntax that is easy to read, write, and maintain, dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby are extremely conducive to rapid development. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...

Dynamic programming languages have been around for decades. With LISP (LISt Processing) and Smalltalk as progenitors, today’s popular examples include Perl, Python, and Ruby. Often labeled “open ...

The .Net framework covers similar ground but in a language-neutral way. C#, Visual Basic.Net and other .Net languages are only lenses through which programmers see the same underlying framework. Glue ...