When a senior Microsoft engineer floated the idea of wiping out C and C++ from the company’s codebase by 2030, the remark ricocheted across developer circles as a death notice for two of computing’s ...

JetBrains’ Developer Ecosystem 2023 report shows where C++ developers stand on C++ language versions, IDEs, package managers, build tools, code analysis tools, and AI-assisted development. Let’s dive ...

Microsoft is bringing GitHub Copilot’s most advanced Visual Studio integration to C++, allowing the AI assistant to tap into the compiler's understanding of whole C++ codebases.

There comes a time in any software developer’s life when they look at their achievements, the lines of code written and the programming languages they have relied on, before wondering whether there ...

Microsoft may be preparing for one of the most ambitious internal code transitions the software industry has seen in years. A senior engineer at the company has publicly outlined a long-term plan that ...

The F-35 fighter jets operated by the U.S. Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force are equipped with software coded in C++. This C++ code is written in accordance with a coding standard called ...