Runners-up for this year’s award include C, which grew by 3.82 percentage points, and Python, which rose 2.78 percentage points in 2022. Python was the Tiobe Programming Language of the Year for ...

Of course, C++ has object-oriented features that aren’t available with C. Thus, a host of rules specific to MISRA C++ are related to things like class and object definitions.

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 ...

The use of curly braces in programming languages dates back to 1966 with the Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL). As BCPL grew in popularity, it then inspired the C programming language and its ...

Apple is the latest tech giant to highlight security problems with C/C++ code in operating systems. The company is addressing memory safety in XNU, the kernel for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more.

The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, and it named Rust as an example of a programming language it considers ...

Here’s a history quiz: What architecture did the first C++ compiler target? Of course, it is a trick question. The original C++ — known then as C with classes — compiler wrote out… ...

As of September 2020, C++ is the fourth most popular programming language globally behind C, Java and Python, and – according to the latest TIOBE index – is also the fastest growing.