I promise never to use C/C++ for a new project

Re:I promise never to use C/C++ for a new project by dmacvicar on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @08:27AM (#8916798)

I can't avoid smiling when I see this. It is not that I don't have a love/hate relationship with C++ already or that I don't like Rust or Golang a lot but...

It gives me the impression we live all in our silos/caves and pretend reality is the same.

Working for an Enterprise Linux distributor that ships code for multiple architectures and support our code for a decade means Rust or Golang would fail the first round of questions: eg. Does it run on s390x?

Then I remember I am reading Hacker news and Macbooks are all x86_64 and software is rewritten from scratch every 2 months :-)

I bet somebody will bring up embedded/micro-controllers.

EDIT: grammar

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Re:I promise never to use C/C++ for a new project by greenyoda on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:41PM (#8921322)

"Does it run on s390x?"

Or IBM's i operating system[1] (formerly i5/OS, formerly OS/400), for that matter. The enterprise world is chock full of machines that run on this, but I'm not expecting a version of Rust or Go that runs on EBCDIC machines in the foreseeable future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i

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