Re:Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [...
by rramadass on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:20AM
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>I wouldn't be surprised if C++ was in very gradual but terminal decline.
I am quite sceptical that this will ever happen. C and C++ are fated to live together and forever :-)
The "accidental" rise of Web Applications gave a fillip to other languages simply because most of the early programmers were non-CS people. But once these apps hit their limits at scale they had no other option but to fallback to C++. So most often you only have a shim/skeleton app written in some other language whereas the libraries/guts are all written in C++.
I am quite sceptical that this will ever happen. C and C++ are fated to live together and forever :-)
The "accidental" rise of Web Applications gave a fillip to other languages simply because most of the early programmers were non-CS people. But once these apps hit their limits at scale they had no other option but to fallback to C++. So most often you only have a shim/skeleton app written in some other language whereas the libraries/guts are all written in C++.