Having been out of the programming loop most of 20 years now, not being familiar with the plethora of more recent languages, it warms my heart to hear someone say C++ is still the king of code. I learned C++ almost 40 years ago. I'm happy to know it still lives on.
Anyone out there writing anything in [ancient] Cobol or Fortran code? Maintenance of legacy programs?
Micro controllers like ESP32 and PI pico still use C++. So far, it holds it's own. Think of the legacy code base still using C++.
How about C? Visual Basic? Visual C? Pascal? Anyone still coding in these languages? I'd imagine the Visual versions are still active. They were great at automating excel applications.
I do plain C mostly for 8 bit embedded. Also used it for doing BLE on a RPi. In the end, probably won't do that again, but man that was fun. C++ on 32 bit embedded.
Tried my hand at mobile dev in C# inside the Xamarin framework. Fuck. That. Yeah, it got the job done... but at what cost...
Then there's the screwing around on my Tandy 1000 in 8086 assembly.
Cobol is still widely used in the gov sectors.
I bet those legacy Cobol programs were initially written in the 1960s-70s on punch cards! The banking industry had a lot of legacy Cobol too. My understanding 30 years ago was that there was an unfulfilled demand for Cobol programmers and they were being paid a premium over the industry average salaries. The reason was the computer industry had moved on, Cobol was no longer being taught and nobody wanted to get locked into ancient languages that had no future. Cobol wasn't shiny enough to attract people to forsake the latest and greatest thing.
Gov cobol programmers are still making a premium if you can get into one of the jobs.
The old fuckers in them never leave and dont take promotions. So they rarely open. Death and retirement open them these days.
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