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> Did they? Somehow I didn't notice everyone moving to other languages Neither did the FORTRAN and COBOL programmers back in the days. The reason is that there
by alephnil 14y ago
> Did they? Somehow I didn't notice everyone moving to other languages
Neither did the FORTRAN and COBOL programmers back in the days. The reason is that there were plenty to do (and still is) for those already involved. That is also the case to a less degree with C++. It is just that most of the growth has been elsewhere. You won't find much web programming in C++, which is the area where the largest growth has been. There sure is some, I even have encountered web application in FORTRAN, but most web applications are written in PHP, Java, Ruby, Python and others, not C++.
- shmerl 14y agoComparison is not valid, since I'm considering many new projects. For example parallel computing (massive data processing) is mostly done in C++. Intensive 3D games are written in C++ as well. Just about anything that needs critical performance is written in C++. So we aren't talking just about legacy code, we are talking about new development.
- alephnil 14y ago> Comparison is not valid, since I'm considering many new projects. If C++ had never been considered for new projects, it would have been in sharp decline, which it is not. What I said was that most of the growth has been elsewhere, like in web where there is hardly any C++, and mobile apps, where there is relatively little C++ (some on iOS, but Objective C dominates there). My main point was that as long as the whole industry is in growth, you may not notice that the world has moved on, at least not if you measure the health of X by the "still new projects in X".