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Re:Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth by paulddraper on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:08PM (#18766354)
Nothing will "kill off" C++.

Nothing -- not even C++ -- "killed off" C.

But it's share of total usage can and will decrease. Java certainly took a massive chunk of the "programming market" that would have otherwise been C++. And then later JavaScript. Of course, software usage in general has been going up and up, so in absolute terms C++ has been increasing as well.

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Re:Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth by pjmlp on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:36AM (#18770016)
C++ has a hard fight against C on embedded platforms where we still have devs using C89 + Assembly, and on classical UNIX flavours.

It certainly looks much different in other platforms and modern OSes.

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