Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code. Within the realm of these languages there is a wide range of how close the ...

New figures have claimed C++ is among the top three most popular programming languages used by developers today. The TIOBE Index, which promises to check more than one billion lines of code every day ...

Developers apparently did not listen to a recent White House advisory to move away from C++ and C over memory safety concerns, as C++ has climbed to second place in the Tiobe index of programming ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...