Seems like kind of a crazy thing to say. The first thing to note, is that we should obviously be free to write software like games and other utilities in whatever language we want, especially if they’re not connected to the internet. Second, why exactly are we demonizing people now? Suddenly declaring a language deprecated not only doesn’t actually make any sense, but also seems like a great way to influence people’s personal opinions about others. I can tell you from experience that sentiments like this breed hostility in the workplace. And finally, this is pretty short-sighted, considering the supply chain attack is clearly the attack of the coming age.
Agreed. And while rust has fantastic ideas, those are frankly often badly executed:
- Static linking of everything
- Big dependency trees that somehow remind me of npm
- Slow compilation, it should reach at least the average speed of C compilation
- Big binaries because of static linking
Before this is solved, I frankly wouldn't even consider touching rust again for personal projects, did it once, and it was an awful experience with too long compile times, as my style of development depends on fast compile-run-test cycles and having to wait around a minute to recompile for a small program is just too much.
Well, he's the CTO at Azure and apparently he's telling his people to avoid using C/C++ for new projects. They no longer have that freedom there because he just told them so. What people do in their spare time is of course their own business.
I believe other big companies have similar reservations about using C/C++ on new projects. And given the cost of cleaning up the security mess that using C/C++ has caused these companies, I can see where they are coming from.
It's not about demonizing people but just a simple, rational business decision to not use C/C++ for new things anymore. We have Rust now and it's capable of delivering the same level of performance as C/C++ but without all the memory leaks, buffer overflows and other costly headaches that a CTO of Azure needs to worry about messing up his business. Not worth it anymore.
People taking things like this personally is unfortunate but more a problem these people have than anything else. I get it, it's not fun having your favorite language - and by extension you - labelled obsolete. Not a nice message to receive.
I work in games for a very large studio, C++ is not going anywhere anytime soon (see Unreal Engine). The vast majority of experience is in C++ and no other language.
Server side services (read outside of Unreal Engine Server) are not written in C++ however.
