That's by far the most downloads of any tool in the VS Code Marketplace ... has been downloaded almost 27 million more times than the most popular non-Python extension (C/C++, 33.3 million). What's ...

This allows Python programs to wrap libraries written in C and C++. Significant chunks of the Python ecosystem of third-party libraries, such as for machine learning, have C code at their core.

There appears to be a resurgence in interest in 35-year-old programming language C++, which has risen to third place in Tiobe's index for April 2019. C++ was created in 1985 as an extension of C ...

Tiobe index of programming language popularity identified Python and C++ as the languages with the ... Python remains the third most popular language behind C and Java in the January 2021 edition ...