Although C++ is better in many respects, it has inherited many of the problematic features of C. (From here on when I refer to “C”, I mean to include the subset of C++ that shares these issues.) ...

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.

This step irks those who are primarily focused on performance. Java vs. C++ performance In contrast, a program written in C++ gets compiled directly into machine code -- without an intermediary ...