The paper notes the NSA's recent recommendation for organizations to "consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C ...

Runners-up this year were C, the second most popular language, which grew in popularity by 3.82%, and Python, the top language, which grew by 2.78%. Having fallen from third, Java is now in fourth ...

C++, which sees a significant amount of use within Google, is similarly a successor of sorts to the original C programming language. Advertisement - scroll for more content.

Ada has climbed into the top ten of the TIOBE Programming Community index, according to the July leaderboard. Ada is one of several older languages that consistently jockey for spots in the lower ...

Google has revealed more on Carbon, a new programming language that the company believes could be the successor to C++. Programming languages are constantly improving and developing, and have been ...