A new “visual programming language” called Impure aims to open up the wild world of data visualization to non-coders. Impure is the latest stab at bringing coding to the masses — or techno ...

Visual programming is not just about putting a UI on top of a programming language. It is a programming environment that sits on top and embraces all of the other technologies.

There is a long history of Visual or Graphical Programming Languages, and most of them make more sense than the name of Microsoft’s Visual Basic, C#, and Visual Studio IDE.

With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

Now, the ability to create the same kinds of extensions for their favorite languages in the full-fledged IDE has excited some developers, as evidenced by a Reddit thread discussing building an ...