Microsoft's Office suite is primarily C++. There was an attempt to start using more C# a couple years ago, but it's still mostly C++. On a closed-source projec

Microsoft's Office suite is primarily C++. There was an attempt to start using more C# a couple years ago, but it's still mostly C++. On a closed-source project, it's hard to get the details. But the open source projects, however, we can get a very clear picture. OpenOffice: [1] 10.4 million lines of C++ 1.2 million lines of Java *edit* noticed you mentioned LibreOffice, not OpenOffice LibreOffice: [2] 5.7 million lines of C++ 0.4 million lines of Java Firefox: [3] 4.0 million lines of C++ 1.8 million lines of C 1.7 million lines of javascript MySql: [4] 7.0 million lines of C++ 4.0 million lines of C 0.4 million lines of javascript 0.3 million lines of Java The point I'm trying to make is that C++ is widely used, and definitely not used just for gaming. > Most new development isn't done in C++ Whether or not C++ is the right choice for new development is a different question. Github posted their top 20 languages for new repositories in 2013 [5]. C++ is #6 and has more new projects than C, Objective-C and C#. Even if it's fading in popularity, that's still a lot of new projects in C++. [1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice/analyses/latest/languages_summary http://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice/analyses/latest/languages_... [2] http://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest/languages_summary http://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest/languages... [3] https://www.ohloh.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_summary https://www.ohloh.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_su... [4] http://www.ohloh.net/p/mysql/analyses/latest/languages_summary http://www.ohloh.net/p/mysql/analyses/latest/languages_summa... [5] http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-far/ http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-fa...