A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

Language evolution will be interesting. The older stuff will remain in circulation in the training dataset, for significant changes the lack of recent training will be a pain. A broad observation here ...

Whether you run IT for a massive organization or simply own a smartphone, you're intimately familiar with the unending stream of software updates that constantly need to be installed because of bugs ...

Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and ...

Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++. Over the years, Google has created a few programming languages, some of which ...

TIOBE Index for November 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent November’s TIOBE Programming Community Index feels less like a simple reshuffle and more like a new ...

Bjarne Stroustrup first started developing the the C++ language in 1979 at Bell Labs. Back then, it was called “C with Classes,” and it was created as part of an experiment in distributed computing.

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities. US President Joe ...

I keep hesitating to partake in the thread What’s the oldest, weirdest, nastiest, or most unusual language you’ve ever coded in? My quick answer would be: all of them. C, Java, Javascript and no doubt ...