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Re:Ion: Cross-platform OpenGL library from Google by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @12:31AM (#11070927)
Curious notion. C++ has perhaps the richest library set in the world.
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Re:Ion: Cross-platform OpenGL library from Google by alblue on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @03:13AM (#11071365)
Only if you've never seen libraries for other languages: there are an order of magnitude more for the JVM or JavaScript, to name two.
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Re:Ion: Cross-platform OpenGL library from Google by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @10:39AM (#11073416)
I suppose in a particular area - web e-commerce and the like.

Stats for SourceForge (maybe out of date): http://www.statisticbrain.com/computer-programming-language-...

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Re:Ion: Cross-platform OpenGL library from Google by pjmlp on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:45AM (#11073977)
Outside performance critical areas, where shaving off KB and ms really counts, C++ has become an infrastructure language with others taking most of the work.
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