Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, to ...

Our results show interesting find- ings, such as, slower/faster languages consuming less/more energy, and how memory usage influences energy consump- tion.

Ada has climbed into the top ten of the TIOBE Programming Community index, according to the July leaderboard. Ada is one of several older languages that consistently jockey for spots in the lower ...

We've subsequently done a lot of analysis about programming language popularity, but even with this late 2024 update, I'm sticking with the original 12 languages we tested. While some of our 12 ...

C and C++ are still dominant languages in AOSP, but Android 13 is the first version where most of the new code is from memory-safe languages. After Google adopted it for AOSP in April 2021, Rust ...

Microsoft reveals plans to bring GPT-3, best known for generating text, to programming. “The code writes itself,” CEO Satya Nadella says.

New research paper titled “Exocompilation for productive programming of hardware accelerators,” from researchers at MIT and UC Berkeley. From their abstract: “To better support development of ...

A compiler is a computer program that translates from one format to another, most often from a high-level computer language to byte code and machine code. Compilers come in a number of variations ...