Assembly
1949Assembly language is the thin layer between human-readable code and raw machine instructions. Every program, regardless …
Explore 75+ Programming Languages
CodeArchaeology
Unearthing programming languages from the popular to the obscure
Discover how languages old and new still run on modern machines — macOS, Windows, and Docker. From FORTRAN to Rust, every language has a story to tell.
hello_world.history
// 1957 - FORTRAN
WRITE(*,*) 'Hello, World!'
// 1972 - C
printf("Hello, World!\n");
// 1995 - Java
System.out.println("Hello!");
// 2015 - Rust
println!("Hello, World!");Featured Languages
Start your journey through programming history
Java
1995Java is one of the most influential programming languages ever created. Designed with the philosophy of “Write …
BASIC
1964BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming …
Carbon
2022Carbon is an experimental programming language designed at Google as a potential successor to C++. Announced publicly in …
C
1972C is arguably the most influential programming language ever created. Developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, …
Fortran
1957Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) holds a unique place in computing history as the first widely adopted high-level …
Latest Posts
Recent explorations and discoveries
Gri
NewA command-driven language for scientific illustration, written by oceanographer Dan Kelley to make publication-quality PostScript graphs reproducibly from a text file rather than from a mouse.
Read more →Glass
NewAn esoteric language from 2005 that welds Forth-style postfix stack juggling to Smalltalk-style object orientation, pushing even addition and subtraction out of the syntax and into methods on built-in classes.
Read more →GPML
NewThe Graphical Pathway Markup Language - an XML vocabulary that grew out of the GenMAPP desktop tool to store biological pathway diagrams as both pictures and machine-readable, database-linked models.
Read more →GlovePIE
NewA Windows-only scripting language for input emulation, written so that a line like W = glove.z > -50 cm turns a VR glove, a Wii Remote or a Kinect into whatever keyboard, mouse, joystick or MIDI device a game already understands.
Read more →GrASP
NewGraphical Representations of Algorithms, Structures, and Processes - a NASA-funded Auburn University notation and environment that folded a compact control-flow diagram directly into procedural source code, and the direct ancestor of jGRASP.
Read more →GOO
NewA dynamic, type-based, object-oriented language from the MIT AI Lab - Jonathan Bachrach's attempt to build a simpler, lisp-syntaxed Dylan that compiled itself to C on the fly.
Read more →Ready to Start Digging?
Every language guide includes working code examples, Docker images for instant setup, and progressive tutorials from Hello World to advanced topics.