Hi, totally agree C/C++ will outlive many of these new languages.
It's also most likely Javascript will wane off sooner rather than later
due to WebAssembly steadily improving.
Been working/programming for 43 years now, while I fondly remember
Pascal on CP/M from my youth (before C++ was invented), once I switched
to C++ in the early 90's (Visual C++/MFC), C++ always felt as my "home".
Also you could say that good and stable ecosystems for a language takes
decades to arrive, at least one generation of programmers has to come
and go I think. So the peak of C++ will be in the future :-)
Rgrds Henry
On 2019-02-19 21:13, Christoph Feck wrote:
On 02/19/19 20:47, Jason H wrote:
What I've learned is that it's better to stand on the shoulders of
giants than to rewrite the universe from scratch. I dream of a say
where we can code things and everyone else regardless of platform can
run it. I thought this was going to be .Net CLR, or Java VM, but
corporate ownership initiatives derailed them (Much like the "You
will" ATT ads of the 90s - we got it, but not from ATT). But C/C++
runs all more platforms/processors. Linux has come a long way in terms
of bringing all CPUs a usable software ecosystem. And this though
rather obtuse is one reason to pick Qt - that it'll support any system
that can run a C++ compiler. You don't technically need to use QML,
you can keep going with C++.
Once upon a time a mother of two curious boys called me, asking me to
teach them programming. They have no clue what language to start with,
so I suggested C as a base, to later learn Python, C++, Java (or C#).
Then some "smart" student told one of the kids "JavaScript is da future
of da Internetz". I stopped teaching them after it was suggested to
stop the C course and swap it for a JavaScript course.
C/C++ will be relevant in the future. All other languages will come and
go (no pun intended).
Whether Qt will be relevant in the future lies in the hands of its
developers. Don't ruin it.
Christoph Feck
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