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Assembler will always scale too. The fact that something will always scale does not mean that it really is the proverbial golden hammer. Assuming that you will

Assembler will always scale too. The fact that something will always scale does not mean that it really is the proverbial golden hammer. Assuming that you will need scalability for any project regardless of what it entails is premature optimization. There are also any number of cases where by using C++, you are missing the opportunity to use something more sensible. Some example use cases include data processing using massively distributed Hadoop installations, data analysis using Matlab/Octave or R, scripting using shell, perl, python, or ruby, and web client programming using JavaScript. I can't imagine web client programming counts among your "anywhere", but if you are doing all of these other things and doing them in C++, then I must ask why. And in my personal experience[1], developer velocity has proven to be much higher in, say, Python than C++, and there are any number of use cases where rapid development is more important than scalability. Do you really find C++ to be the fastest language for a team to develop in (in your experience)? [1] Warning -- anecdotal evidence directly ahead.

frozenport 13y ago
ASM doesn't scale in structure (impossible to manage) and certainly not in architecture - for example new Intel Haswell's have vectorization opportunities which will cause any code that doesn't use these opcodes to run worse. Lastly, it is increasingly difficult to beat C/C++ in performance using handmade ASM, especially when comparing tight loop performance in handmade asm and intel icc - although maybe I suck. Web-client doesn't count in my anywhere because my browser doesn't run a compiled language. That being said backends are often written in C++. A frequently used paradigm is to see some glue language java, python, calling critical C++ routines that are exposed as a library.

frozenport 13y ago

ASM doesn't scale in structure (impossible to manage) and certainly not in architecture - for example new Intel Haswell's have vectorization opportunities which will cause any code that doesn't use these opcodes to run worse. Lastly, it is increasingly difficult to beat C/C++ in performance using handmade ASM, especially when comparing tight loop performance in handmade asm and intel icc - although maybe I suck. Web-client doesn't count in my anywhere because my browser doesn't run a compiled language. That being said backends are often written in C++. A frequently used paradigm is to see some glue language java, python, calling critical C++ routines that are exposed as a library.