Programming language Python is now firmly the second most popular programming language, for the first time knocking Java out of the top two places in RedMonk's language popularity rankings. It's the ...

Problem statement released to address the challenges to making cross-language development with C++ and Rust more accessible and approachable. The Rust Foundation, which stewards development of the ...

Research by Microsoft and Google shows that approximately 70% of all security vulnerabilities are caused by software bugs and vulnerabilities related to memory access, such as buffer overflows, out-of ...

A year ago Java was the most popular programming language among developers, but it's now jostling for second place with Python. Software firm Tiobe's December 2020 programming language rankings place ...

“Technology from the past comes to save the future from itself.” That’s how Graydon Hoare, the creator of Rust, describes what he wants to achieve. That’s one of the key hallmarks of Rust: using ...

This article is part of the TechXchange on Rusty Programming. While C and C++ remain the backbone for embedded programming, there are alternatives that often offer improvements in areas such as ...

The software industry is making headway against a group of pernicious vulnerabilities that are responsible for the vast majority of critical, remotely exploitable, and in-the-wild attacks, ...

Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.