Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++. Over the years, Google has created a few programming languages, some of which ...

Bjarne Stroustrup first started developing the the C++ language in 1979 at Bell Labs. Back then, it was called “C with Classes,” and it was created as part of an experiment in distributed computing.

Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.