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C & C++ are #2 and #4 on the Tiobe index fwiw. It’s not like real-time is a niche.

• coldtea 7y ago
  Real time is indeed a niche (though a big one), but also it's hardly the reason C and C++ are #2 and #4 on Tiobe.
  • overgard 7y ago
    Video games are like a 43 billion dollar industry, and that's just a small slice of software that has real time requirements. Real time is very much a mainstream need. Hacker news just tends to be a bit of a bubble because people focus so much on web development and business logic here.
    • coldtea 7y ago
      >Video games are like a 43 billion dollar industry, and that's just a small slice of software that has real time requirements. But still a tiny slither on what most programmers do. Most programmers (the overwhelming majority) do neither video games nor real time.