I did not understand the author's opinion that C++ was no longer needed for writing portable code. When I look back on my previous projects, most of them have b

I did not understand the author's opinion that C++ was no longer needed for writing portable code. When I look back on my previous projects, most of them have been written in C++ because that was the only feasible way of doing it I could come up with. For example how could I have done anything of this in another language like C#/Java? - Writing a Video on Demand streaming library that was using the torrent protocol and unicast sockets. Required to be platform independent. - Writing a web browser plugin for all webkit browser and IE that interfaced with OpenNI and Kinect SDK, using ffmpeg to stream RGBD video to a server. The plugin was based on Firebreath which is a C++ library for making portable plugins. - Developing a high-performance iOS/Android app which requires a lot of OpenGL graphics and computer vision algorithms. I don't particularly like C++, but I don't see how anything of this could have been done with another language. If so, please educate me!