C++ emerged in 1985 and remains one of the most popular languages, in part due to its performance. It is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the latest ...

C++, which sees a significant amount of use within Google, is similarly a successor of sorts to the original C programming language.

C++ was created in 1985 by Danish computer scientist, Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ is the main language used to build Chrome and has been a key language, along with C, for the Android Open Source Project.