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Where is C++ on that list?

• sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
  Most programs you use and internet infrastructure are written in C and C++. Furthermore, it's actively used to develop new software everyday by most large companies.
  • adra 4y ago
    I'd say your first comment is very true and your second is very untrue. There will be sectors that will generally gravitate to c/c++, and a huge boatload that won't touch them with a ten foot pole. Corp languages are jvm based, .net based, js/ts, and maybe Go in some contexts now. None of the companies I've worked at in like 15 years has decided to create new c++ projects (clearly subjective view).
• tmtvl 4y ago
  By what possible metric could you consider C++ "mostly dead"? I'm fairly sure that most, if not all AAA games nowadays are coded in C++, for example. Never mind such little known projects like GCC, Qt, and LLVM. It's not a language I care to use, but it's clearly still very healthy: widely used and regularly updated.
  • worik 4y ago
    I am sure I saw its corpse on the road. I kicked and kicked and it would not get up again.
  • cmacleod4 4y ago
    Not to mention that it's "influential" mostly by providing examples of what not to do in a sane programming language :-)
• FpUser 4y ago
  And then they woke up.
• miohtama 4y ago
  None of the other programming language compilers in the world would not build anymore if C++ would be dead or dying.
  • astrange 4y ago
    There’s significantly less interest in implementing the next version of C++; Apple and Google don’t care about it. So someone’s going to have to update g++ and clang.
  • timbit42 4y ago
    While many compilers are originally written in C or C++, most are soon rewritten in themselves.