Fun fact: Most software isn’t written in C or C++. (I’m consistently amazed by the fact that this is news to a lot of people…)
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Replying to @pcwalton
It really depends on what you're counting. Obviously true if you count the astronomical amount of junk on Apple and Play stores, or web apps (server or client side components). But...
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Replying to @RichFelker @pcwalton
Pretty much everything I use regularly is written in C or C++ (now plus Rust in Firefox). Desktop apps written in Python or JS (Electron) are just unusably slow and awful.
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Replying to @RichFelker @pcwalton
I've been writing soft-realtime and high-throughput code in Python for a while & that makes me wonder what's the actual problem with writing good desktop apps in Python. I mean, I haven't used any, sure.
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Replying to @whitequark @RichFelker
Probably dependency and packaging issues.
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Note that on Windows C#/VB apps are quite common and I can barely even tell when an app is Win32 vs. .NET…
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