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Yes, C++ has been and will stay as the language of choice for many major free and commercial apps. It's not very surprising as there exists quite a lot of profe
by gerhardi 14y ago
Yes, C++ has been and will stay as the language of choice for many major free and commercial apps. It's not very surprising as there exists quite a lot of professionals with skills in C++ and the performance of applications written in C++ is generally very good.
- alexakarpov 14y agoCorrection: the performance of good applications written in C++ is generally very good. Unfortunately, the language itself is not particularly conducive to writing a lot of software, fast, while maintaining the satisfactory quality level. Especially in today's world.
- gregsq 14y agoI'm doing mostly embedded work on ARM chips at the moment. Which is a world away the rooms of Sparc V9's I've also worked on. It's a tighter space and you can't use too much of C++'s bigger bits. But multiplexing an SPI bus with C++ for example was vastly more efficient coding and performance wise because you don't need to remember whether some function or other set a mutex and released it. A specific custom lock in the base class improved code review and mutability. It has it's uses.