As Jansen notes, C++ hit a high point in 2003 with a 17.53% share that put it in the top three programming languages. One possible reason for the resurgence in interest in C++ is the arrival of C++20.

A new policy document that engineers are discussing on Y Combinator's Hacker News evaluates popular programming languages C, C++, Dart, Rust, and Go that the Fuchsia project "uses and supports for ...