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I've been suspicious of Tiobe's ranking of C higher than C++ because I know hardly anybody using C any more. 90% or more of C/C++ programming I'm aware of is C+
by TwoBit 10y ago
I've been suspicious of Tiobe's ranking of C higher than C++ because I know hardly anybody using C any more. 90% or more of C/C++ programming I'm aware of is C++.
- kbart 10y agoEmbedded and system level programming is still done almost universally in C and that's a huge segment. In reality I'd say C is even higher, because only a small part of code written in it ends up on GitHub, the rest is deep inside legacy systems.
- smcl 10y agoI was a bit confused too when I saw Swift ahead of Objective C
- haimez 10y agoThat one makes more sense to me. There's no legacy platform that only supports Objective-C and not swift, so virtually all the developers switched to the more pleasant to use language.
- smcl 10y agoBut there's almost a decade of existing Obj-C code (I'm guessing iOS apps comprise the bulk of objective C code). I would have thought porting that To Swift would be a Herculean effort - but I'm not using either language so maybe I'm not best placed to talk about this
- pjmlp 10y agoI guess you are not focusing on UNIX systems programming. Anything other than C and Assembly is sacrilege.
- dingo_bat 10y agoC rules the roost in embedded Linux devices. I suggested in my team that we move to C++ and was met with incredulous reactions. To be honest the only thing I seriously miss in C is std::vector.