Both mobile and server-side software are kind of a big deal at the moment --to understate drastically. And both can benefit greatly from C++ for the simple reas

Both mobile and server-side software are kind of a big deal at the moment --to understate drastically. And both can benefit greatly from C++ for the simple reason that computation (and especially memory traffic) requires power and power comes at a cost --either in the form of data center electricity bills or in the form of bigger, clunkier batteries in your device. "Servers are cheaper than engineers" is certainly true in small-to-mid-scale development. But, I expect Facebook is shifting from PHP->HipHop->C++ to save money. Meanwhile on mobile, you can't just tell the user to buy multiple phones. Your only alternative to more efficient software is to sit and wait for faster chips to start using less power. Unfortunately, it looks like there is a power-wall coming up there pretty soon... http://darksilicon.org/ http://darksilicon.org/