Ask HN: What's Your C++ Prediction?

3 pointsllmblockchain1y ago2 comments

With much software moving to the cloud and browser it's natural C++ usage will decline.

Do you imagine C++ becoming a highly valuable and sought after skill for systems that were written in C++ (ie, something like COBOL today)?

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npalli1y ago

The contrarian point is everything that can be moved to the cloud and browser has done so and the growth rate will only decline. Slow "GDP" type growth rate.

Most of things that are poised to take off in a dramatic way - like cloud and browser in 2005 - are heavy in local/edge computation with a fat pipe to the internet. Examples - Games, AI, ML, Robotics, IoT, sensors, drones, Industrial equipment etc.. All of these actually favor a language like C++.

Not everything in the world is a SaaS business connected to the cloud via a browser.

talldayo1y ago

> With much software moving to the cloud and browser it's natural C++ usage will decline.

This is not a very clear corollary. C++ was never browser-native, but even still you can use it to write WASM webapps. Cloud software has been written in C++ since forever ago and there's little reason to expect it will stop.

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