Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward.

Re:Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward. by vonmoltke on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:14PM (#9000358)

> I love C/C++, but it's getting harder to find work in that language unless you want to focus on embedded systems.

It's getting harder even if you do want to focus on embedded systems. I see the hiring bars for those positions getting increasingly higher, to the point where it is almost impossible to switch in if you didn't start there or back if you took a break.

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Re:Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward. by pjmlp on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:42PM (#9000518)

Fully agree.

My employer moved away from C++ projects in the enterprise space back in 2005, into more programmer friendly languages.

In spite all the nice C++11/C++14 features, the enterprise hardly cares for C++ nowadays.

And when it does, the code is most likely pre-C++98, written with MFC, Tools.h++ or similar.

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Re:Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward. by rnc on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @09:21PM (#9001407)

Care to elaborate? I'm early in my career(24), love embedded systems, but I just don't know if there are good jobs available in this industry for young people. Could you give more info?

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