There are decades and decades of code written in cobol that run the modern banking system.
Multiply that code base size by like, 78.3, and you’re possibly in the same galaxy as the all the c++ codebases out there that will be maintained for the next 50 years.
Rust may eat the lunch of c++ moving forward, the language will never go away.
Just like COBOL! Seriously, _just like COBOL_. The language will fade in importance over time. C++ will be relegated to increasingly narrow niches. It will eventually only be found in "legacy" systems that no one wants to spend to rewrite. No one young will bother at all to learn C++ at all. Then, in a few decades, they'll be pulling folks like you and me out of retirement to maintain old systems for big bucks.
I doubt this analysis. The base of computing where C++ is used is exponentially larger than the base where COBOL was used. In particular the compilers we currently use are written in it.
Abso-fkn-lutely! Stable computing protocols of all sorts don’t go away overnight and that is something everyone in IT should absolutely get used to. I expect C/C++ to live long beyond 2050.
Multiply that code base size by like, 78.3, and you’re possibly in the same galaxy as the all the c++ codebases out there that will be maintained for the next 50 years.
Rust may eat the lunch of c++ moving forward, the language will never go away.