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 ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a correlation between a computer’s energy consumption and the choice of programming languages? Well, a group of Portuguese university researchers did and set out to ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

In 2019, C had a yearly increase of 2.4% on the TIOBE Index, which is a larger positive percent change than any other language. It is currently in the number 2 spot on the index, right behind Java ...

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 ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was ...

35-year-old programming language C++ is undergoing a revival, according to Tiobe Software, which says it is the fastest growing language of any right now. C++ is "doing very well", Tiobe CEO Paul ...

Several non-English programming languages even date back to the era of government-sponsored room-sized megacomputers, such as several Soviet-era programming languages that were based on Russian ...