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While I agree the young people who work on the languages and frameworks are increasingly working with other languages. The rust crowd is much younger than the p
by Shinmon 4y ago
While I agree the young people who work on the languages and frameworks are increasingly working with other languages. The rust crowd is much younger than the people who are publicly working on popular C++ frameworks.
In 10 years, there won't be many people left working on C++ as a language and on the tooling.
- pjmlp 4y agoMight be, but until Microsoft et all rewrite their tooling in Rust, there will be enough people to keep C++ going. And if it changes, so be it, I am not coding today as I was in 1986, when I typed my first LOAD "".
- still_grokking 4y ago> but until Microsoft et all rewrite their tooling in Rust, there will be enough people to keep C++ going. At least Microsoft started to do exactly this. They started to touch the Win API even to create Rust bindings. Because MS saw that this is the only way to future prove this stuff. Other big players, like IBM, don't look like they're moving, though. But OK, IBM moves so slowly as a pitch drop falls. So maybe we just don't see them moving.
- pjmlp 4y agoThose Rust bindings are a joke for any serious Windows development. If you feel like C++/WinRT development experience is bad, good luck with Rust/WinRT. And since it is the same team leads, which clearly have proven that they don't care about developer productivity, given how they have managed the C++/CX to C++/WinRT transition, I wouldn't wait too much out of it.
- still_grokking 4y agoYes, Microsoft is Microsoft. And I've heard rumors the Win team is an issue in general. (As the product they ship). But they're at least moving. And the direction is clear.