Is C++ Gaining in Popularity?

An anonymous reader shares this report from Dice.com:
C++ is enjoying a surge in popularity, according to the latest update to the TIOBE Index, which tracks programming languages’ “buzz.”

C++ currently sits right behind C and Python on TIOBE’s list. …

July 22, 2023
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Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:

Recalling a past Computer History Museum look at the evolution of programming languages, Doug Meil ponders the age-old question of Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? in a new Communications of the AC…

July 10, 2023
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Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning To Code?

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Y Combinator founder Paul Graham last week took to Twitter to lament those who use AI or other excuses for not learning to code. “A generation ago some people were saying there was no point in learning to progra…

June 17, 2023
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