Thread: Is C + + in front of a shiny comeback

For a long time was the great new Java language, then it was Python, then Ruby was in the spotlight and finally saw the long-maligned JavaScript comeback. The current favorite is a language that no one expected.Believe it or not, C + + could make a comeback are (currently C + +, however, continue to lose market share).Last year, the latest version of the ISO C + + standards adopted. It was the first major revision of the programming language in 13 years.

The new version is now officially called C + +11 and contains features that simplify the development of software for modern architectures parallelprozessierende. Furthermore, it contains lambda expressions, and new file types for simultaneous calculations. Together with C + + C remains one of the most popular languages for system-and hardware-level programming and need for applications that are running high-performance native code, such as 3D game engines.

Outside of specialized niches was C + + does not particularly popular.The programmers have ever further from the native compilation for the benefit of managed code environments such as Oracle, Java andMicrosoft. Net away. Because one leg and Java. Net does not have to worry more meticulous about the memory management and input in.



Java / C # to be checked better. Other languages such as Python, Ruby and JavaScript provide more syntactic convenience. But C + +11 comes out at an interesting time. Could be many experts believe that the pendulum swing back again and see C + + is a Rennaisance.

Google is probably the last company you would expect from that it is interested in native code. For years, Google has firmly maintained that the concept of desktop software is obsolete (think again of the many cloud-based Google applications and also to the Chrome Books). In Google's ideal world, applications run only on huge server farms and the user's browser. Google Chrome OS has even developed its own operating system in order to prove exactly that.High demand for PHP and Javascript programmers.

But even Google acknowledges that it is sometimes not sufficient to interpret JavaScript. That is why Google has a sandbox called Google Native Client (NaCl) developed, which allows the Chrome browser to download and run native binaries, so performance-intensive tasks can be handled.

NaCl is not the only link that Google has to native code. The Go-programming of the search engine giant is often described as "Java-like" section, but that is only partially true. Syntactically it is similar to Java in some areas, but Go-code not running in a virtual machine. It is compiled directly in native code. But more importantly, ensure that Google has even gone so far as that go-binaries can run not only on the desktop, but also in the Google App Engine cloud environment.

And what is the second largest software giant - namely Microsoft? As the world's largest supplier of desktop software was Microsoft C + + has always been over benevolent. In recent years, the C / C + + developers but have felt a little pushed to the edge, because Microsoft has spent most of his energy for C #, the C-derivative for the. NET platform, which relies on managed code.