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> C++ had an era of malaise where conflicting implementations of the standard library across a dozen+ platforms led to the complete abandonment of it by the mid

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  GP seems to be talking about abandonment of the C++ standard library, not abandonment of C++ language.
  • marshray 9y ago
    Strange. I have been continuously employed developing in mostly C++ since the 1993 and have only ever seen increasing adoption of the C++ standard library.
• kibwen 9y ago
  I'm loathe to dignify TIOBE with analysis, but even by TIOBE's own numbers C++ has fallen from 15% in 2001-2004, to 10% in 2005-2013, to 5% in 2013-2018. And given that C++ was ranked #2 as early as 1993, even the era of 15% was likely a fall from an earlier height. Compare C, which has held steady since 2001 (with the exception of that huge anomalous dip last year which is being corrected (and which caused C to trigger TIOBE's "language of the year" despite having hugely fallen in TIOBE's own rankings, which helps illustrate how little regard we ought to give TIOBE).
  • marshray 9y ago
    Right, I wouldn't rely on TIOBE for anything more precise than "has continually been in the top 5".