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.

Computing How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

Rust's appeal among developers and software engineers is growing as giants like Microsoft and AWS look to the language to help build infrastructure and systems.

The story begins in 1979 when Bjarne was conducting research at Bell Labs, primarily using C language. C language is powerful, but Bjarne felt it was "too hardcore"; managing complexity in large ...

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

The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of systems programming. Even though it has yet to hit version 1.0, Zig is already in use with several production projects ...

While we might take issue with some of the programming languages selected as being “well known”, the project was very thorough and quite well documented.

Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++.