I have mixed feelings about this.
On one hand, I'm enthused that Rust, arguably the only serious contender to C++'s throne, is gaining traction.
On the other hand, I'm scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered "obsolete" by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing away man-centuries worth of polished, working code on the sole ground that it's C++.
It's not like C++ is going anywhere anytime soon, (Some serious infrastructure reportedly still runs on COBOL after all!) but what if we could finally settle down on a technology for a certain kind of problem and focus all our energy on building new stuff? Wouldn't that be grand?
I wonder whether there's another industry that keeps reinventing itself every 20 to 30 years and still gets away with it.
On one hand, I'm enthused that Rust, arguably the only serious contender to C++'s throne, is gaining traction.
On the other hand, I'm scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered "obsolete" by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing away man-centuries worth of polished, working code on the sole ground that it's C++.
It's not like C++ is going anywhere anytime soon, (Some serious infrastructure reportedly still runs on COBOL after all!) but what if we could finally settle down on a technology for a certain kind of problem and focus all our energy on building new stuff? Wouldn't that be grand?
I wonder whether there's another industry that keeps reinventing itself every 20 to 30 years and still gets away with it.