Facebook parent Meta now encourages its engineers to use C++ and Rust programming languages for coding high-performance backend services. Rust, initially developed within Mozilla, is joining Meta ...

But, coding with memory safe languages “can eliminate most memory safety errors.” That means the White House is urging coders against using languages like C and C++.

Async use of C++ is a big deal because we are all increasingly needing to do things concurrently and in parallel. [Editor's note: "async" is shorthand for asynchronous — code that can run in the ...