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On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 12:46:33 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 11:00:59 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>Chances of Rust taking over that segment?
Also C++ is still used (and must be used??) for applications like photo and video editing s/w.
Will Adobe be better off using C# or swift or whatever instead pf C++?
Rust is already partially eating up the marketshare of C/C++. There is a big drive to enable Rust for Linux drivers for example. For low level programming, I find Rust annoying but some people might endure it.
When it comes to applications, it is a mystery to me that C++ still is so popular. Probably mostly because there is an existing code base that companies don't want to rewrite. This is a great opportunity for D as the FFI is one of the best out there which enables a gradual migration.
C# is great for applications, for Windows. For other platforms I'm not sure what the status is and if you get the same performance. For cross platform GUI application, there isn't an obvious choice. C++ with Qt is still a strong contender but it is becoming proprietary.
What did you mean by becaming proprietary? the community version is falling behind alot than the paid one?
Let's not forget web applications,
>when performance is not required web applications do a good enough job at the same time becoming totally platform independent.
Paint.net is written in C# and you don't really notice it as it runs just as well as any C++ program.
Do you know why paint.net run so smooth even it's written in C#? they are doing alot of pinvokes to native fucntions? that's how VS code runs smooth