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. C++ ...

C++ is the fastest programming language for economists While Fortran is a very popular choice for economists, it was the C++ that ran the fastest on both Mac and Windows. The elapsed time for C++ ...

Google and Microsoft are major users of and contributors to the fast programming language C++, which is used in projects like Chromium, Windows, the Linux kernel, and Android.

IEEE Spectrum's top programming languages for 2022 are slightly different to Tiobe's, but Python is also the top language. It's followed by C, C++, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, R, HTML, TypeScript.

Python and Ruby are almost always going to be interpreted. This tends to create a performance hierarchy: C++ and Fortran are faster than Java and C#, which in turn are faster than Python and Ruby.

Why does modern C++ matter? Hal: Modern C++ matters because that’s where the community is. That’s where the developers are right now. And it’s really the only programming language that across many ...