As the world marches into the artificial intelligence era, the role of the programmer is evolving. No longer confined to lines of code and syntax mastery, today's developers are increasingly becoming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about innovation, the future of work and remote work. The future of programming and AI is more nuanced than headlines ...

Programmers write, test, and troubleshoot code for software and applications. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects a 10% decline in U.S. programmer employment between 2020 and 2030, due to ...

Many older computer programmers believe they are victims of discrimination; they think companies push them out in favor of younger IT hires who are perceived as more knowledgable about the latest ...

Open Source software is nothing new to many. It is free computer software that is made available along with its code. The person or organization that created the open-source software makes it ...

Matthias Endler, a former backend engineer and programmer at travel booking site Trivago, has compiled 15 traits that make a great programmer in his blog. The key is to always go to the primary source ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...

From being outsourced to getting bored to hurting somebody with a bug, software developers find lots of things to worry about Software developer is generally considered a pretty good job, and with ...

Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...