Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Work on the Safe C++ extensions proposal, forged a year ago to address memory safety in the language, has ceased, according to Harry Bott, the CEO of the C++ Alliance, which oversaw the proposal. The ...

WhatsApp migrated 160,000 lines of C++ to Rust to eliminate memory-safety bugs. Here’s how compiler-level security changed its threat model.