Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and ...

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.

C is the foundation for many popular software projects such as the Linux kernel and it remains a widely used language, currently second in the Tiobe index.

Microsoft Research is open sourcing the project to help extend the C language, while also aiming to make it more secure and reliable.