~5% of developers, while small compared to the whole, still encompasses about a million of the estimated 20 million developers worldwide. The other poster righ

~5% of developers, while small compared to the whole, still encompasses about a million of the estimated 20 million developers worldwide. The other poster rightly mentioned the embedded space, and that is absolutely true (and indeed it is where I gained my affinity for C and C++), however there are easily 20 middleware / web / mobile developers for every embedded developer.