Image: iStock/pcess609 Each month, software quality assurance company, TIOBE, releases its roundup of the top programming languages. In the latest rankings, C topped the list followed by Java ...

Cheerp, a C++ compiler that generates JavaScript code for use in any browser, is being upgraded this week with improved performance, reduced output code size, and backing for 64-bit integers.

The libraries are built in C and Zig, and it explicitly avoids any Node or NPM dependencies, thereby minimizing JavaScript in its stack. These decisions are all in service of maximizing performance.

Python is now the fastest-growing major programming language, according to Stack Overflow.

Senior developers in JavaScript, HTML and CSS have seen the largest salary increase over the past year at 6.2%. Developers in C#/V.net and ASP.net have also seen an above average increase of 5.7% ...