The current C++20 standard supersedes these with new features and an enlarged standard library. The C++ programming language was initially standardized in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, which was then amended by the C++03, C++11, C++14, and C++17 standards. Ĭ++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with the latest standard version ratified and published by ISO in December 2020 as ISO/IEC 14882:2020 (informally known as C++20). e-commerce, web search, or databases), and performance-critical applications (e.g. C++ has also been found useful in many other contexts, with key strengths being software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications, including desktop applications, video games, servers (e.g. Ĭ++ was designed with an orientation toward systems programming and embedded, resource-constrained software and large systems, with performance, efficiency, and flexibility of use as its design highlights.
It is almost always implemented as a compiled language, and many vendors provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, LLVM, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and IBM, so it is available on many platforms. The language has expanded significantly over time, and modern C++ now has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation. GCC, LLVM Clang, Microsoft Visual C++, Embarcadero C++Builder, Intel C++ Compiler, IBM XL C++, EDGĪda, ALGOL 68, BCPL, C, CLU, ML, Mesa, Modula-2, Simula, Smalltalk Īda 95, C#, C99, Chapel, Clojure, D, Java, JS++, Lua, Nim, Objective-C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Rust, Seed7Ĭ++ ( / ˌ s iː ˌ p l ʌ s ˈ p l ʌ s/) is a general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes".