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| From | Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: "Nearly a quarter-century later, why is C++ still so popular?" |
| Date | 2021-08-05 18:17 -0300 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <sehkgh$bfu$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <sdpojb$aq7$2@dont-email.me> <sec7rc$1jud$1@gioia.aioe.org> <secjv7$dtq$1@dont-email.me> |
On 8/3/21 8:37 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 8/3/2021 3:10 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >> On 7/27/2021 12:59 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> "Nearly a quarter-century later, why is C++ still so popular?" >>> >>> https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/nearly-a-quarter-century-later-why-is-c-still-so-popular/ >>> >>> >>> "Despite C++’s downward trend on the TIOBE Programming Community >>> index since 2001, the language’s fall from the coveted top two slots >>> in 2020, vociferous and persistent claims that C++ is “dead like >>> COBOL,” and the inroads the Rust is making in developer circles – C++ >>> is still as viable, vital and relevant as ever." >>> >>> Because it just works ? >>> >>> And I am not impressed with Rust whatsoever. >>> >> >> Never used Rust, humm. Perhaps I will give it a go, maybe start with >> some online compilers: >> >> https://play.rust-lang.org >> >> Humm, it should be fun for me to try to port some of my existing >> programs into Rust. >> >> C++ is an excellent language that can be used to create many awesome >> things. Want to write a low level subsystem, or a runtime for your own >> language, C++ is there. Want to create really fast low level server >> code, C++ is there. Are you looking for low level, fairly fine grain >> access to std threads and atomics/membars, C++ is there! >> >> C++ is there for a lot of things. Want to create an OS? C++ can come >> in handy. Keep in mind that nobody has to use all of the "fancy" >> features. Wrt the OS case, one can use "just" enough C++ to get the >> job done. > > The newest Firefox, version 90, is reputedly now majority Rust. I am > having problems with it using enormous amounts of ram in its ten Win64 > processes on my Windows 7x64 Pro PC, up to 9 GB of ram now. I have been > shutting Firefox down and restarting it twice a day as a solution. The > Firefox developers are not interested. Well, the problem seems to be the developers not the language. I suffered the same memory issues with several versions of Firefox years before Rust. -- Cholo Lennon Bs.As. ARG
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