C++ for the next decade

Re:C++ for the next decade by newt0311 on Sunday November 09, 2008 @02:27PM (#358438)

It may help if they tried removing things instead of adding more bloat on top.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by hermitcrab on Sunday November 09, 2008 @02:43PM (#358453)

There must be billions of lines of C++ in production systems. Backward compatibility is crucial.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by curiousgeorge on Sunday November 09, 2008 @02:58PM (#358465)

If you need a fast object-oriented language that can interact with most C software and libraries and doesn't need a fancy GUI, C++ is great.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by hermitcrab on Sunday November 09, 2008 @04:16PM (#358506)

C++ does fancy GUIs just fine. See Qt.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by uuilly on Sunday November 09, 2008 @11:30PM (#358868)

Qt is my favorite gui API of all time. Their new IDE is amazing as well:

http://trolltech.com/developer/qt-creator

It feels like google made an IDE. It's got Chrome like simplicity and power. Certainly worth a look if you're Qt hacker.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by curiousgeorge on Sunday November 09, 2008 @04:41PM (#358531)

Qt is GPL.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by hermitcrab on Sunday November 09, 2008 @05:06PM (#358557)

Qt has several licences.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by coffeeaddicted on Monday November 10, 2008 @02:20AM (#358981)

They no longer show prices for the other licenses on their webpage. But a few years back it was high enough to cover about 3 months of my living costs. Which is probably no big deal for larger companies, but for a startup it is.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by curiousgeorge on Monday November 10, 2008 @05:03AM (#359076)

exactly. funny to be modded down on a hacker forum for pointing out the obvious: the lack of free GUI development tools is a mark against doing GUI development in a specific language.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by acangiano on Sunday November 09, 2008 @05:53PM (#358578)

> and doesn't need a fancy GUI, C++ is great.

And what's great for fancy GUIs? I'm curious too.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by nostrademons on Sunday November 09, 2008 @08:28PM (#358713)

Whatever's native to the platform. On Windows, that usually means C#/.NET. On Linux, C/Gnome or C++/Qt. On the Mac, Objective-C/Cocoa. On the web, JavaScript.

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Re:C++ for the next decade by silentbicycle on Sunday November 09, 2008 @04:10PM (#358504)

So is Lua.

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