Programming journal and website Dr. Dobb’s is ceasing publication of new content at the end of 2014.

Editor Andrew Binstock explains the decision by owners United Business Media to “sunset” the site, though all existing content will remain available.

Dr. Dobb’s Journal began as a newsletter published by Bob Albrecht and Dennis Allison in Menlo Park, California. It was devoted to Allison’s programming language Tiny BASIC. Its first issue in January 1976 was called Tiny BASIC Calisthenics and Orthodontia

The magazine grew to become a programming journal with a strong reputation and global readership. In the nineties it was a fat print publication stuffed with detailed articles on subjects including programming languages, techniques and algorithms, operating system internals, developer tools. Contributors included Allen Holub, Andrew Koenig, Herb Sutter, Scott Ambler, and the Reg’s own Verity Stob. It was also full of ads, but the rise of the internet meant that the attention of both developers and advertisers turned elsewhere and the last print edition was dated February 2009.

“R.I.P. Dr. Dobb’s” said contributor Eric Sink at the time; but Dr. Dobb’s became a successful web publication, and according to Binstock its readership has been growing, with a record 10.3 million page views in 2014.

Dr. Dobb’s — long time icon of programming magazines — “sunsets” at the end of the year. Editor Andrew Binstock says despite growing traffic numbers, the decline in revenue from ads means there will be no new content posted after 2014 ends. (The site will stay up for at least a year, hopefully longer.)