Alternatively: they've worked in one or two of these niches, and undervalue the portability of C++ across these niches. As it turns out, databases, game engines, high throughput/low latency infrastructure servers, and firmwares have a lot in common.
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Most of the complaints about c++ I've seen have come from bitter veteran graphics programmers
Ex. Casey Muratoti and the like -
It's one thing to complain about C++. It's another thing to suggest it doesn't have a place in the world of software in 2018. I'd be wary of anyone who claims knowing C++ and also doesn't spend half their time ranting about the language :-)
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@delroth_ What's a niche in which C++ is an option but C is not? I'm genuinely curious. Because a lot of the C++ criticism is also that C is enough and C++ is just bloat on top. -
Any large C project eventually reinvents vtables, badly. And containers, even more badly. C is the less worse when you need extremely tight control of allocations. Otherwise, meh...
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