C++ is a general-purpose systems programming language that is now more than 40 years old, having been designed in 1979. Far from losing steam, C++ still ranks near the top of multiple programming ...

First released in 1980, Ada is intended for use in embedded and real-time systems. The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month.

Key systems programming languages include C++, Google-backed Go, and Mozilla-created Rust, but Rust and Go are 'memory-safe' languages while C++ is not.

C++ was created in 1985 by Danish computer scientist, Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ is the main language used to build Chrome and has been a key language, along with C, for the Android Open Source Project.

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three ...