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.

Are programmers in C/C++ more preferred at Google than programmers in Java? This question was originally answered on Quora by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

NSA to developers: Think about switching from C and C++ to a memory safe programming language For many developers, that could mean a shift towards C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift.

Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

In what cases is Java faster, if at all, than C++? This question was originally answered on Quora by Cameron Purdy.

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 ...

Programming languages: C++ overtakes PHP, but JavaScript, Python and Java still rule While the most used programming languages remain stable, there's quite a lot of change elsewhere.

C++ precompiled headers are compiler- and platform-specific. And C++ requires a large amount of source to be shipped in order to compile against it. Java defers platform-specific stuff to the runtime.

It's a fair question to ask: Is Java slow? If you focus solely on performance time and resource consumption, it lags behind C++, but overall Java is still quite fast.

The results of the September TIOBE Programming Community index are in, and the C language tops the list again with a slight uptick from August of last year, and Java comes in second with a slip over ...