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Outside the world of people who do write C or C++, most people I talk to really do bucket the two together as if they were largely interchangeable or, at least,
by pdpi 5y ago
Outside the world of people who do write C or C++, most people I talk to really do bucket the two together as if they were largely interchangeable or, at least, a lot more similar than they actually are.
- adrianmsmith 5y agoRight I mean one project I was working on who had to write some JavaScript and would always refer to that language as Java. He was a developer, literally using one of the languages, so should have known better. And Java and JavaScript have less in common than C and C++.
- yakubin 5y agoBucketing them together is fine. There are technical and organizational reasons for that. When you're working with C++, you're almost guaranteed to need to deal with C as well, so jobs for "C/C++ developers" make perfect sense. There is also a certain level of expectation that future versions of both languages keep incompatibility between one another to a bare minimum. I'd happily apply for a "C/Rust" job as well.