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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++ ...
Despite it being placed third in Tiobe's January 2023 index, the popularity of C++ rose faster than all other languages last year, up by 4.26% compared with January 2022, the company said.
In addition to these, C++ is a friendly programming language for the business environment, standing out in the creation of e-commerce platforms and pages, desktop applications and websites in general.
C++ is the workhorse language at Microsoft, which uses C++ to build many of its core applications. C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multiparadigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language.
C++ is "doing very well", Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen, says in the company's September 2020 index for the world's most popular programming languages. C++ currently ranks fourth, behind C, Java, and Python.
Data Parallel C++ (shorthanded as DPC++), the direct programming language component of oneAPI, is an open cross-industry alternative to single-architecture languages.
In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the Tiobe Index of language popularity, edging out C++, which increased 1.99 percentage points.
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