Webapps and x86 have "won" too, but if you think nobody writes code for anything else you're awfully sheltered.

There's plenty of C/C++ work. A lot of legacy but a good chunk of new stuff too.

as other posters on this thread have mentioned, i think it really depends on the community you belong to ... many GNU open-source hackers swear by C and won't touch managed code with a ten-foot-long stick because of their associations with Sun (Java) and MSFT (.NET) ... whereas if you're writing enterprise applications in a big company, your entire firm is probably on .NET and would scoff at those unix hippies still using command-line gdb :) joelonsoftware has an article entitled Biculturalism that addresses this issue:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html

GDB integrate very well with recent Emacs.(tooltip, visual breakpoint, stactrace etc)

Apple's Xcode uses GDB.

open source evidently: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/open_source_projects...

No, not yet. C and C++ are not only alive, but thriving.

I used it last night :)