I'm a C/C++ programmer with 15+ years experience. I recently was looking in the job market, and I didn't feel any problems trying to find a C++ job. Most jobs

I'm a C/C++ programmer with 15+ years experience. I recently was looking in the job market, and I didn't feel any problems trying to find a C++ job. Most jobs weren't C++, but there were still jobs that I could have applied for that would have interested me. But I chose instead to go with a job doing PHP (having no practical experience in PHP), because of the opportunities presented by the company, not because I felt PHP was superior in any way. C++ opportunities are definitely decreasing, but there is still a lot of life left in it for performance-critical applications. And most kids these days coming out of school don't really learn C++ as much as they used to. I find most of the kids that I interview have experience in Java and Python, so it means that those old dinosaurs like me that have significant C++ experience still have a decent shot, unlike the COBOL programmers of Y2K.