Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming ...

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 ...

Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, to ...

The end came for Objective-C in June of 2014, when Apple announced the debut of Swift, a new programming language for building native apps on all Apple products.

Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

That’s also faster than Objective-C, which is 2.8x faster than the Python version. We will obviously need to take a closer look at this new programming language and how it relates to other ...