However, IEEE Spectrum earlier this year ranked Python as the top language, ahead of C, Java, C++, C#, R, JavaScript PHP, Google's Go, and Apple's Swift. Previous and related coverage.

Q&A In an interview, Sun inventor James Gosling dissects Microsoft's C#, suggesting the language is like Java with the 'reliability, productivity and security' deleted.

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C++ rose slightly in popularity, ... C# and Java have been in competition for more than 20 years due to their use in similar domains, said TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen.

C#, F#, and Visual Basic are the most prominent languages used with .NET: C#: Announced with much fanfare upon .NET’s launch in 2002, C# is the most famous and widely used .NET programming language.

Rounding up the top five was C# at 4.92%, with JavaScript coming in at 7th place, PHP in 12th, and Apple’s Swift coding language in 15th, down from 10th this time last year.

C# was designed by Anders Hejlsberg, who had left Borland for Microsoft, in 1999, and implemented by Mads Torgersen in C and C++ for the CLR in 2000. C# compiles to CLR byte code (intermediate ...

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the availability of the first beta version of a new tool that will migrate Java code into C#, Microsoft's proprietary Java-like programming language.

Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x ...

C++ precompiled headers are compiler- and platform-specific. And C++ requires a large amount of source to be shipped in order to compile against it. Java defers platform-specific stuff to the runtime.