For its new Moments photo-sharing application, Facebook eschewed the crop of currently fashionable mobile development platforms in favor of coding in the venerable C++ programming language.

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The vaunted C++ programming language, which overtook Java last month in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, was the index’s biggest gainer in 2022, Tiobe announced this week.