Tag: systems-programming

Rust set out to preserve the control and performance expected from systems programming while using ownership, borrowing and a strict type system to prevent broad classes of memory errors without a garbage collector.

C emerged alongside Unix at Bell Labs and helped demonstrate that operating systems could be written in a high-level language without giving up close control of the machine.

C++ began as Bjarne Stroustrup's attempt to bring stronger abstraction to C while preserving the efficiency and systems access that made C valuable.