For its new Moments photo-sharing app, Facebook eschewed the crop of fashionable mobile development platforms in favor of coding in the venerable C++ programming language.

The vaunted C++ programming language, which overtook Java last month in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, was the index’s biggest gainer in 2022, Tiobe announced this week.

Other new features in C++ 20 include: A C++ 20 synchronization library, bringing barriers, latches, and a few other modifications to C++’s low-level concurrent programming support.

Sometimes the best tool for the job is the oldest one in the toolshed. For its new Moments photo-sharing application, Facebook eschewed the crop of currently fashionable mobile development ...