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I do write a tiny bit of this not gaming C++. And I feel extremely alone in what I do. So please, instead of being snarky, do something useful and show me some

• AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  Well, I work in embedded systems. They tend toward C++ on higher-end systems and C on lower end. So it's your wireless router, your printer, your car, your washing machine, the medical devices at your hospital... all over the place. But embedded is maybe 10% of code. Where else is it used? I'm not as sure of that, but the TIOBE index indicates that it's used pretty heavily. I'm outside of that world, but I think that high-performance computing sometimes uses C++, because controlling memory alignment is a big deal there, and C++ does that pretty well. The origin story of Go says that Google has a lot of C++, but that was a decade ago. I can't speak to how much new C++ is being written there. Perhaps one way of looking at it would be to look at the membership of the C++ standards committee, and subtracting the language vendors. The rest are users.