"utterly irreplaceable" in some cases; in mine, I'm not interested in spend 10+ years to start confidently program concurrency and deal with memory drama. In many cases is irreplaceable but I'm not buying that those are all cases, ever, always, for any reason. The Mozilla team are not newbies nor Microsoft devs, and they are activelly working on Rust, I guess for them C++ is not utterly irreplaceable. That every line of C/C++ will be Rust or that C/C++ are soon to be dead is nonsense, not even COBOL is dead yet. But Python and even Ruby are alive in web dev when PHP exists. And many languages slowly started replacing Perl when everything was Perl; even Bash have lost some ground with Python. And we even have NO-SQL nowdays, who knew...
You misunderstand me. By "utterly irreplaceable", I'm referring to the entire programming landscape, not specifically to each conceivable case. C and C++ cannot be completely replaced across the entire industry.
My bad, I totally agree with that, as a side note: someone asked Linus Torvalds (the Linux kernel god) if he had plans to migrate the kernel to Rust, he answered something in the lines of "Rust seems interesting but nope, I like C", so there it is, not even C is soon to be dead.
"utterly irreplaceable" in some cases; in mine, I'm not interested in spend 10+ years to start confidently program concurrency and deal with memory drama. In many cases is irreplaceable but I'm not buying that those are all cases, ever, always, for any reason. The Mozilla team are not newbies nor Microsoft devs, and they are activelly working on Rust, I guess for them C++ is not utterly irreplaceable. That every line of C/C++ will be Rust or that C/C++ are soon to be dead is nonsense, not even COBOL is dead yet. But Python and even Ruby are alive in web dev when PHP exists. And many languages slowly started replacing Perl when everything was Perl; even Bash have lost some ground with Python. And we even have NO-SQL nowdays, who knew...
You misunderstand me. By "utterly irreplaceable", I'm referring to the entire programming landscape, not specifically to each conceivable case. C and C++ cannot be completely replaced across the entire industry.
My bad, I totally agree with that, as a side note: someone asked Linus Torvalds (the Linux kernel god) if he had plans to migrate the kernel to Rust, he answered something in the lines of "Rust seems interesting but nope, I like C", so there it is, not even C is soon to be dead.