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I'm a developer in my mid 20s with a few friends who are software engineers. None of them worked with C for years. The jobs here are JavaScript, Java, Python,

• jcelerier 5y ago
  Depends on where you live I guess ? When I was in Bordeaux there were almost as many c/c++ jobs than java/php/js jobs, and more than Python jobs.
• bsenftner 5y ago
  The modern reality is that most, 99.99%, of all software does not need the performance nor engineering flexibility that is C/C++. couple that with multiple generations of new developers being told "memory management is too hard for your poor little brains" and similar bullshit - nowadays it is rare to find a young developer that is not downright afraid of C/C++. Plus, the greybeard C/C++ guru is not at all helpful in many locations, having been corporate abused for decades at this point...