Qt and hundreds of KDE apps built on it are hardly niche. What about VLC? Gecko? WebKit? LLVM? All niche projects? I don't know about the commercial applicatio

Qt and hundreds of KDE apps built on it are hardly niche. What about VLC? Gecko? WebKit? LLVM? All niche projects? I don't know about the commercial application space, but in FOSS C++ is alive and well. And it isn't going anywhere for a long, long time. For a new project, C++ is a much better choice than C, even if you don't use all features of the language. The compilers are faster and better than ever, and the libraries are great. <UNRELATED> I, for one, have never seen a decent quality desktop application written in Java. C# has better apps because C# programmers seem to prefer using Windows.Forms on Windows and GTK# on Linux. But nothing beats the speed and responsiveness of an application running on the bare metal. </UNRELATED>