InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

A software developer from San Francisco managed to do what no one else did before, creating a fully-functional two-way chat using only CSS and HTML, completely ditching JavaScript in the process.

But underestimating HTML is a mistake. HTML is the most significant computing language, programming or otherwise, ever developed.

In terms of programming languages, JavaScript remains the most widely used language with approximately 16.5 million engineers globally. Python follows closely with 11.3 million engineers ...

A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services.