To put C++’s growth in context:
Compared to all languages: There are now more C++ developers than the #1 language had just four years ago. Compared to Rust: Each of C++, Python, and Java just added about as many developers in one year as there are Rust total developers in the world.
Whoa. That are some carefully selected numbers. It is like saying that I am earning much better money than my 16-year-old nephew (who just finished school), and that, because my job is installing and servicing coal stoves and coal stoves are still used in large part of the country, the coal stove industry is in a totally healthy state.
Hmm. Sounds like C++ is losing ground to Rust - which is much younger - fast.
Especially considering that according to the Stack Overflow surveys, young programmers tend to get into C++, but experienced developers clearly prefer Rust.
Of course, C++ isn’t going to dissppear. It will continue to be used for a long time, especially in old, mature code bases. But the same is true for COBOL. And very few new projects use COBOL. In the same way as some scholars and archeologists need to know Latin, but very few publish research or write new books in Latin - even if it was the language of science just a couple hundred years ago.
I do C++. And mostly, there are 2 languages daily.
C++withQML, when doing GUIC++withJSONfor DB related stuffXMLfor many other thingsXMLwithCSSfor UI, but here, theXMLpart is mostly offloaded to a GUI toool.Unless you are including
CMake,qmakeandUnix Makefilesof course, but that’s not an everyday thing either.Same experience here, with 20 years of experience in the industrial / embedded field.
Tbh, I would classify everything you do regularly at work as your daily work.
The point remains the same: You need to know all these languages. You cannot say “I’m just doing DB stuff today, so I can totally forget QML and relearn it tomorrow when I have a GUI ticket.”
Well, I guess that’s one way to put it.
But in that case, I would have 3 years of Python experience, which was <5 hours.