The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or other ...

Mention embedded programming and most will automatically think of C. But while it’s still the dominant language for the space, these days C has lots of company. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of ...

TIOBE Index for February 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent February’s TIOBE Index shows a leaderboard that looks steady at first glance, but small shifts beneath ...

C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it ...

A first working draft proposal for the next version of C clarifies and refines existing features, rather than adding new ones A working draft of the standard for the next revision of the C programming ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Ritchie and Thompson both worked with BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), which was used on Multics. It was the ...