Tag: C

February 28, 2024

The government would prefer it if you stopped programming tools in C or C++. In a new report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has called on developers to use “memory-safe programming languages,” a category which […]

February 27, 2024

US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++. The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in a report released Monday, called on developers to […]

January 31, 2023

The creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, is defending the venerable programming language after the US National Security Agency (NSA) recently recommended against using it. NSA advises organizations to use memory safe languages instead. Responding to the agency’s November 2022 bulletin […]

December 12, 2022

New figures have claimed C++ is among the top three most popular programming languages used by developers today. The TIOBE Index(opens in new tab), which promises to check more than one billion lines of code every day in an effort […]

July 15, 2022

Go 1.19, an update of the Google-developed programming language due in August, introduces a revised memory model and new types that make it easier to use atomic values. Now in a preview stage, Go 1.19 can be downloaded from go.dev. […]

April 13, 2022

Python’s explosive growth over the last decade has shown the world it’s a powerful and flexible way to accomplish very nearly anything you want to do in computing. It’s also clear that Python still has a few painful shortcomings that […]

October 6, 2021

Fast, safe, easy to write—pick two. That’s been the state of software development for a good long time now. Languages that emphasize convenience and safety tend to be slow (like Python). Languages that emphasize performance tend to be difficult to […]

July 30, 2021

With the recent release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2, Microsoft has introduced a brand-new Hot Reload experience that not only helps developers be more productive but also supports both managed .NET and native C++ apps. The software giant’s […]

May 27, 2021

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 v16.10, an update to the flagship IDE that emphasizes C++ 20 support, and a preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.11, a point release that centers on a new Hot Reload capability. Both releases were […]

January 25, 2021

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.9 Preview 3, an update to the company’s signature integrated development environment that offers more command line tools for C++ development as well as enhancements tuned to .NET and XAML. The previous update to […]

January 5, 2021

For the fourth time, Python has won Tiobe’s programming language of the year award, given to the language gaining the most popularity in one year. In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the […]

July 5, 2017

Design patterns are used to solve common design problems and reduce the complexities in our code. The mediator pattern is a behavioral design pattern that promotes loose coupling between objects and helps to organize the code for inter-object communications. This […]

May 4, 2017

Fans of C++ praise its power and speed, but even they admit its complexity can be daunting. That’s true when you’re writing libraries in the language, and it’s doubly true when you want to make C++-authored libraries useful to other […]

December 6, 2016

Python has become entrenched near the top of language popularity indexes while C continues on a downward trajectory. In the PyPL Popularity of Programming language index, which analyzes language searches in Google, Python again takes second place with a 14 […]

September 16, 2016

Earlier this week, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) department announced word of Milk, a system that speeds up parallel processing of big data sets by as much as three or four times. If you think this involves […]

August 11, 2016

According to the latest Developer Nation Q3 2016 survey from VisionMobile, Android’s lead over iOS as primary platform and developer mindshare has been consolidated. Also, Windows developers prefer C# in the cloud while Linux ones stay with Java. For many […]

August 3, 2016

Developers may yearn for hot newer languages like Swift, Rust, and Scala, but their employers prefer stalwarts like Java. Yet Python, a trendy language that also is gaining momentum in businesses, bucks the trend altogether. Based on a study of […]