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You're high. In industry C and C++ are very widespread. Go and Rust are ... not. You'll have an easier time finding a job that requires FORTRAN than one requ
by bt848 7y ago
You're high. In industry C and C++ are very widespread. Go and Rust are ... not. You'll have an easier time finding a job that requires FORTRAN than one requiring Rust, and Go is only a bit more popular.
- Koshkin 7y agoWell, you go to C++ for the climate; you go to Go or Rust for... the company!
- Gibbon1 7y agoLets touch base again in five years and see how C++ is doing.
- ncmncm 7y agoLet's touch base in five years and see if anybody remembers Rust. It is likely they will, but not assured. Consider that the number of programmers adopting C++ every day far, far exceeds the number adopting Rust, and the rate is increasing faster, in absolute numbers, than ever before, it is hard to imagine any scenario where C++ is less popular, relative to Rust, than today. Yes, C++ usage will less than double, while Rust usage will multiply, but the absolute difference in number will be much larger than today.
- icedchai 7y agoYou seem to underestimate the vast amounts of existing C++ and C code. That code is not going anywhere, especially in only 5 years. Companies are not going to rewrite stuff in Rust just because of memory and type safety. Touch base in 5 years... Rust will still be a niche language due to its complexity. (IMO, Go has a better chance of at least picking up a few percentage points.)
- bt848 7y agoC++ is noticeably safer than C but C is still more widespread. Safety doesn't really sell.