At Apple? Maybe not. But elsewhere?

Maybe no articles written about them but books or chapters ([0], [1]) written by them.

In the spotlight? You betcha, i think watching talks by Brian Cantrill is highly entertaining. Rich Rickeys' talks are highly regarded on HN (making a mental note to watch them). Carmack talking at Quakecon for hours about many different things.

(edit) formatting and links

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Program...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations...

There's an extended interview with him about Objective-C in the book "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages": https://amzn.to/3iEYfGh

There's a chapter from Anders on [1].

1: https://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations...

I believe it was in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations...

While not a history book, per se, "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages" [1] is a pretty great read. You can get a ton of historical context from reading what the language designers were thinking when they created their languages.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations-...

Thanks for the great resource!

Similar interviews are in the following book from 2009. (I am not related to the book, I just read it years ago)

Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages

http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations-...

[...] exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages [...]

• Adin D. Falkoff: APL

• Thomas E. Kurtz: BASIC

• Charles H. Moore: FORTH

• Robin Milner: ML

• Donald D. Chamberlin: SQL

• Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan: AWK

• Charles Geschke and John Warnock: PostScript

• Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

• Bertrand Meyer: Eiffel

• Brad Cox and Tom Love: Objective-C

• Larry Wall: Perl

• Simon Peyton Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, and John Hughes: Haskell

• Guido van Rossum: Python

• Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy: Lua

• James Gosling: Java

• Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh: UML

• Anders Hejlsberg: Delphi inventor and lead developer of C#

(Neither the The A-Z of Programming Languages nor Masterminds of Programming interviewed Niklaus Wirth (Pascal, Oberon, etc.).)