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desktop-GUI: What community? Web devs trying to write desktop apps?

Embedded: Try to write a safe string and vector with bounds checking, or IO port access in C like in C++ type system allows for. Lua is nice for hobby, not production class hardware deployments.

Scientific: Depends, many libraries are yet to be written.

IDE tooling: Typescript and C# audience isn't the same as those using raw C++.

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fetbaffe7y ago

desktop-GUI: Yes, frontend today is a combination of Web & apps, C++ does not fit in either. UWPs can be written with JS or C#.

Writing desktop-GUI is also on the decline, however I could see potential increase in desktop-GUI-programs if governments continue to pass bad regulations of the web like content filters & link tax.

Embedded: How come C++ is not dominating embedded? According to you, it should.

IDE tooling: If you are writing a 2D-game or desktop-GUI it is.

Even though C++ is used as an important building block for other technologies, too survive, C++ must attract a new generation of developers, to continue carrying the torch & develop it further. Does it? I have seen little evidence of that. My impression is that developers learn C++ because of existing projects. Sure, there exists lots of good C++ projects out there that will continue attract developers & push the language further, but will it be enough? I'm not convinced.

pjmlpOP7y ago

desktop-GUI: Many UWP APIs are only accessible to C++/CX. Plus only UWP controls written in C++ are usable from Win32 side.

I have spent the last 4 years doing green field desktop GUIs, apparently those customers haven't got the news.

HTML5 APIs still aren't a match for plenty of native APIs.

Embedded: Religious hate against C++ from older timer devs, as discussed in several CppCon and Meeting C++ talks, e.g. Dan Saks has quite a few of them.

CppCon 2019 will change location, because they no longer can fit everyone on the old location.

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