Memray, which runs only on Linux, is available for download from Bloomberg’s GitHub repository. In addition to working with C and C++ bindings, it also can work with native code, giving users the ...

Visual Studio 2019 expands on this with support for multiple Python runtime environments, making it easier to switch between interpreters and versions, a more capable debugger, and smarter ...

Its top 10 were JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, C#, CSS, C++, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and Swift. Rust was in 19th spot. Notably, though, Java was not one of the languages to see much growth on GitHub.

About 22 percent of all software programmers used C++, and 19 percent used C as of 2023, according to Statista, making them less popular than JavaScript, Python, Java and a few others.

Stroustrup: I can’t do a detailed comparison, but C++ is more flexible (for good and bad) and tends to perform significantly better, assuming competent developers in all languages compared.