Programmer's Dictionary

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Contributors: Conrado Marobin da Rosa and Rafael Medeiros.

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Creation date: 09/15/2026

Last updated: 09/15/2026

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Note: each item will receive a description, so it does not matter if they are empty.

Objective

Method

Not everything inside a category strictly belongs to that category, but it was arranged this way for practical/conceptual organization (for instance, Library, Protocol, Framework, etc.).

List

Software

Operating system

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux
• GNU

GNU was intended to be an OS, so it must stay under OS.

Linux must stay under OS, even though it is an OS kernel.

IDE

• IntelliJ
• VSCode
• Kiro

Text editors—in this case, these specific ones—need to stay under IDE, as they are actually used for development.

DBMS (Database) - Relational

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL

DBMS (Database) - Non-relational

• MongoDB

Tool

• Versioning
  • Git
• Virtualization
  • WSL
• Containerization
  • Docker
• Orchestration
  • Kubernetes

Platform

• GitHub
• Vercel

Languages

Programming language

• C
• C++
• C# (ASP.NET Core Framework)
• Rust
• Ruby (Ruby on Rails Framework)
• Java (Spring Framework)
• PHP (Laravel Framework)
• JavaScript
  • Node.js Environment
  • React Library (Next.js Framework, React Native Framework)
  • jQuery Library
  • Axios Library
  • Lodash Library
  • Vue Framework
  • Svelte Framework
  • Express Framework
• Python
  • Jupyter Environment
  • Django Framework
  • FastAPI Framework
  • Flask Framework
  • pandas Library
  • NumPy Library
  • TensorFlow Library
  • PyTorch Library
• TypeScript (Angular Framework, NestJS Framework)
• Go (Golang)
• Kotlin
• Swift
• Dart (Flutter Framework)
• Elixir
• Haskell

Markup language

• HTML
• Markdown (MD)
• XML
• LaTeX

Style language

• CSS

Query language

• SQL
• GraphQL
• SQLite

Protocol - Network

• SSH
• HTTP
• TCP/IP
• DNS

Other Concepts

• Library
• Framework
• API

Hardware

• Processing unit (CPU, GPU, TPU)
• Volatile memory (RAM)
• Persistent storage (HDD, SSD, NVMe)
• Input device (keyboard, mouse, camera, sensor)
• Output device (screen, speaker, printer)
• Network interface (network card, antenna, modem)
• Bus / Interconnect (motherboard, PCIe)

Peopleware

Terminology

Buzzword

• Machine Learning
• Big Data
• AI
• LLM
• Automation
• Quantum computing
• Programming logic
• Cloud
• Scalability
• Junior, Mid-level, and Senior

A buzzword is something that lacks definition, is poorly formulated, or is repeated as if it were something it is not, even without a clear referent in reality.

Scientific

• Algorithm
• Program
• Application
• Stack

Methodological

• Scrum
• Agile

Operational

• Deploy
• Debug

Professional

• Developer (Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, Mobile)
• DBA (Database Administrator)
• SysAdmin (System Administrator)
• Support Analyst
• Security Analyst
• Pentester
• UX/UI Designer
• Data Analyst
• Data Scientist
• Data Engineer
• Tech Lead
• Product Manager (PM) / Product Owner (PO)
• CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
• CIO (Chief Information Officer)
• Foolish / Idiotic
  • DevOps
  • QA (Quality Assurance)
  • Software Architect
  • Software Engineer
  • Scrum Master

Foolish professional terms are those invented by the market for something that was already done before as if it were something different, or for a useless/foolish role, or simply to get LinkedIn job postings created by the HR team.

History

• 1972: C Language (developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs).
• 1984: LaTeX (macro-based document preparation system for TeX, created by Leslie Lamport).
• 1985: C++ (created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an object-oriented extension of C).
• 1986: SQL (first official standard established by ANSI, consolidating the relational foundations of the 70s).
• 1990: Haskell (release of the first formal specification, Haskell 1.0).
• 1991: Python (released by Guido van Rossum).
• 1993: HTML (initial markup proposal by Tim Berners-Lee).
• 1995: Ruby (Yukihiro Matsumoto), Java (Sun Microsystems), PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf), and JavaScript (Brendan Eich) — a landmark harvest in the same year.
• 1996: CSS (first official W3C recommendation by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos).
• 1998: XML (published as an official W3C recommendation).
• 2000: C# (Microsoft for the .NET ecosystem) and SQLite (created by D. Richard Hipp).
• 2004: Markdown (created by John Gruber with Aaron Swartz).
• 2009: Go / Golang (announced and open-sourced by Google).
• 2010: Rust (initiated by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla).
• 2011: Kotlin (developed by JetBrains) and Dart (introduced by Google).
• 2012: TypeScript (released by Microsoft) and Elixir (created by José Valim at Plataformatec).
• 2014: Swift (publicly introduced by Apple).
• 2015: GraphQL (released as an open-source specification by Facebook).