NSA to developers: Think about switching from C and C++ to a memory safe programming language For many developers, that could mean a shift towards C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift.

Last year they updated the functional language results, and all the setups, benchmarks, and collected data can be found here. Check out the paper for more details.

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A new programming language for ML is emerging: Mojo is a Python superset with additional functions. Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift and LLVM, is behind it.

Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++.