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From a business perspective this makes sense. C++ is a slowly fading language. Most universities/colleges are abandoning it and those that still cling to it ar
by diego_moita 14y ago
From a business perspective this makes sense.
C++ is a slowly fading language. Most universities/colleges are abandoning it and those that still cling to it are in an anti-MS mindset. Therefore, not to much to loose here.
- marshray 14y agoFWIW, I've been hearing this since about a year or two after Sun released Java. I'll consider believing it when I see a major web browser or office suite written in something else.
- kibwen 14y agoCould have sworn that OpenOffice was Java, but turns out it's C++ after all. In that case, I suppose this is your best hope: https://github.com/mozilla/servo https://github.com/mozilla/servo (Not quite a web browser yet, last I checked its exhaustive feature list was "drawing rectangles". But getting there, slowly.)
- marshray 14y agoYeah I'm keeping my eye on Rust. I like what I'm seeing so far.
- batista 14y ago>From a business perspective this makes sense. C++ is a slowly fading language. Most universities/colleges are abandoning it and those that still cling to it are in an anti-MS mindset. Don't know where you got that impression. No one in the industry that always used C++ abandons it. That is, any kind of shrink-wrapped software, from Office and Photoshop, to Final Cut Studio, to databases, to games etc. Even the biggest of the web shops rely on it, namely Google and Facebook. If anything there has been a tremendous comeback of C++ in the last year, especially with the new standard. But what you got more wrong is the assumption that MS somehow abandons C++ with this move? Actually MS heavily touts C++/0x for Metro and general windows development. They even had a huge conference touting the return to emphasis to C++ a couple of months ago, titled "back to native".