Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 20th Aug 2008 19:37 UTC
DevX interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup about C++0x, the new C++ standard that is due in 2009. Bjarne Stroustrup has classified the new features into three categories Concurrency, Libraries and Language. The changes introduced in the Concurrency makes C++ more standardized and easy to use on multi-core processors. It is good to see that some of the commonly used libraries are becoming standard (eg: unordered_maps and regex).
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2005-07-20
I think you hit the nail on the head, without highly experienced (and hence expensive) developers, C++ code can be very difficult to maintain and develop, whereas C code is much easier simply because more people can cope with C syntax and semantics.
I've been wondering however how many successful open source libraries and applications are actually written in C++. I know that apps like Python, Ruby and R are written in C. GTK is written in C. I think most of the successful numerical libraries are written in C, eg GSL and the bulk of netlib (with a lot of FORTRAN). There is of course Boost, but who uses that other than hardcore developers and in any case I presume Boost can only be used with other C++ apps?
I've tended to stay away from C++ because in the open soruce community there are very few good C++ programmers, which means less usage by the community and more maintenance headaches for the author.
Finally, if you write a C++ library what can you link to, other C++ programs? At least with a C API you can link to anything.