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C++ is thriving in 2010

by razvanpetru on June 13th, 2010

Another Linus Torvalds C++ post is making the rounds on the interwebs. Open any site like reddit or Hacker News and you’re bound to find someone cursing at C++.

Despite them – in the real world – more people are using C++ and the language itself is getting better:

  • Compiler and tool support is better than ever.
  • The C++0x FC draft is out, and the big C++ compilers already implement a significant part of it. It brings a larger standard library, better performance, more functional programming, easier syntax for some operations and improves the type system.
  • With Qt, C++ has access to the equivalent of the .NET libraries or the Java class library. Free and open source.
  • It’s available on even more platforms: Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo, and even Android or iPhone.

C++’ers gonna C++ and haters gonna hate… :)

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