The US National Academy of Engineering has announced that Bjarne Stroustrup will receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering for his creation of C++ while at Bell Labs. The language C++, to put it mildly, is widely used. The prize will be formally awarded on February 20th in Washington, DC.
Here is Bjarne's home page and his Wikipedia page.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:59PM
Rust is more like C++ than Node or Go. Rust features RAII and deterministic deallocation/destruction instead of leaving runtime performance and resource management (network/io/etc) to the whim of the gods of garbage collection.