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In article <11bb1da$qfn9$1@dont-email.me>,  <boltar@battlestar.co.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:26:29 +0200
>David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>On 21/10/2026 20:02, boltar@battlestar.co.uk wrote:
>>> Take a look around you. How many new startups are recruiting C++ devs?
>>> 
>>
>>We see it all the time.  Of course, different programming fields want 
>>different languages - C++ is suitable for some things, and less so for 
>>other things.  There is no one language to fit all usage.
>>
>>There's plenty I don't like about C++ too.  But I don't have some weird 
>>conspiracy theory about how it is being destroyed by some ivory tower 
>>academics that want C++ to be hard so that they can look smart, or 
>>whatever your delusions are.
>
>Not sure why you think its conspiracy anything. I use the language on a
>daily basis and everytime a new version comes out I hope they've added
>something useful but since 2014 its been a law of diminishing returns.
>Plus there's unexplained omissions - eg threads have been part of the core
>language since 2011. Great, but what about processes? When do we get them?
>Sure, I could just use fork() but then I could also just use pthread_create()
>too. 

One can implement a pretty reasonable threads library given the
virtual machine model of standard C or C++.  Processes?  With
their own address spaces, credentials, resource limits, IPC
mechanisms, potentially running different programs, and so on?

Not so much.  You need an operating system for that, son.

	- Dan C.