C++ is an obvious candidate. If you don’t have both needs, either a low-level efficient language or a high-level wasteful language will do.” SEE: C# designer Torgersen: Why the programming ...

C++ is challenging to learn ... programmers who have never worked with low-level languages before also find it difficult to learn. In return for its complexity, this language offers unparalleled ...

which dropped from sixth to seventh place and was pipped by low-level language C++. Shell, C and Ruby rounded out the top 10 languages. But the fastest growing languages were Hashicorp ...