Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

Ever find yourself staring at a tricky coding problem and thinking, “shit”? If those thoughts make their way into your code or the associated comments, you’re in good company. When undergraduate ...

The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC), have resurrected their ...

Overview: C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US military agency responsible for developing new technologies plans to embark on an effort to rewrite significant volumes of C code by funding a new research challenge to create an automated ...

Software teams at Google and other Rust adopters see safer code when using the memory-safe language, and also fewer rollbacks ...