Wired speaks to Bjarne Stroustup -- the inventor of the C++ programming language -- 25 years after its invention. Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu.

Image: National Academy of Engineering. C++’s origins date back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup, the programming language’s creator, first began work on the language that was then known as ...

Bjarne Stroustrup designed the C++ language in 1979, and the general-purpose language for systems programming has become a mainstay for developers everywhere, despite competition from Java ...

Apple is the latest tech giant to highlight security problems with C/C++ code in operating systems. The company is addressing memory safety in XNU, the kernel for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more.

TIOBE Programming Language Index News ... Image: TIOBE Software Why C++ reached second place now. ... just to name a few domains,” Jansen wrote. C++ was first released in 1985 as an extension of C.