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I'm learning modern c++ these days, but I don't follow your 'money' logic here...

• wiseowise 4y ago
  Cool kids and students move to Rust, C++ doesn’t have influx of new developers hence more demand for existing C++ developers.
  • Gigachad 4y ago
    We haven't seen the same thing for PHP and other obsolete languages. Cleanup janny work isn't as respected or well paid as building cutting edge new things in modern tools.
    • nindalf 4y ago
      I think the theory is that the payoff comes later. Ideally the system quietly continues working well for decades, but needs maintenance and improvements 30 years from now, by which time most of the existing C++ programmers have retired. If this hasn't happened for PHP, maybe because there are fewer critical infra projects written in it. If it's just another web service, that can be rewritten (unless it's at the scale of Facebook). Whereas the tens of thousands of firmware code bases and other critical infra - we won't even think about them for decades as long as they continue to work (or appear to). Let's check back in 2038!
    • blub 4y ago
      PHP is alive and well in Europe, you need to look more carefully. And C++ is the cutting edge for performance-intensive work.
    • wiseowise 4y ago
      Right, all those HFT, ML, Aerospace, Gaming, auto industries written in PHP, how could I forgot about those.