Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: ???Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich: C/C++ should be deprecated??? Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 12:59:14 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <8635c6j8tp.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <20220922201519.3@kylheku.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ebe72c05e9167e1dd1c2f9bc3baee014"; logging-data="1901219"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196RUMnBACzhTowbZQxBvIkz4OM14au3s8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GG6dFUarEUrdxiYeCLHka7LE7SY= sha1:9aXlvjH7q5ZpX2KeoKG+Rb2etm4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:86768 Manfred writes: > On 9/23/2022 9:50 AM, Juha Nieminen wrote: > >> In comp.lang.c++ Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> wrote: >> >>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.c.] >>> On 2022-09-21, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> >>>> Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich: C/C++ should be deprecated >>>> https://devclass.com/2022/09/20/microsoft-azure-cto-on-c-c/ >>>> >>>> It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust >>>> for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required. >>> >>> Those scenarios are almost never, though. >>> >>> The niche is small, and nothing needs replacing in it. >> >> I wouldn't call embedded programming to be a "small niche". >> >> (Well, the subset of embedded programming that happens on processors >> so small that they can't run Linux, at least.) > > Non-GC is definitely not for embedded programming only. > I have seen a pretty large project for digital imaging workstations > fail because of the non deterministic nature of GC. Garbage collection is not inherently non-deterministic.