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> by far Rust is preferred. It’s never even a contest But it is (for the most part) C++ that pays the bills.
by Koshkin 5y ago
> by far Rust is preferred. It’s never even a contest
But it is (for the most part) C++ that pays the bills.
- tialaramex 5y agoJudging from the same Stack Overflow polling, only by about 3:1 and so we might also say it's really Javascript paying the bills since that's what is most used rather than C++. Just not to write operating systems. If we're thinking about University students it's very likely the ratio is even smaller by the time they graduate and are looking for employment. Rust jobs grow, there are lots of new Rust codebases, and they need maintenance people just the same as C++. You may have fewer mysterious unsafety bugs to fix but your customers still have changing requirements, other people's APIs still change, so you aren't going to go hungry any time soon programming in Rust any more than C++ And if we're talking about in-house training, whatever they are teaching pays the bills, the employer isn't sending employees to learn how to do stuff they've no use for, otherwise they'd just give you indefinite leave on full pay.
- ncmncm 5y agoWishing is very popular, but makes a poor foundation for argument. Or reputation.
- tialaramex 5y agoNevertheless, even if you wish it was otherwise, the thing paying the bills for the most people isn't C++ it's Javascript. Brendan Eich's slapped together Lisp clone with semi-colon language syntax is paying the bills more than Bjarne's "What if C but with a kitchen sink of extra stuff bolted on more or less at random?" language. They're both terrible in different ways, but at least Brendan had the excuse of a hard deadline.
- ncmncm 5y agoIt would be miraculous if even a single person were paid $1M to code JS. But many get that coding C++.