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Subject: Re: C# new features (v.7)
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Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
> Yup. Need to get younger people excited but seems only a few of us
> actually see this.

Younger programmers (those who didn't grow up dealing with old slow
machines with little memory) generally use lower performance but more
convenient languages rather than C, Ada, etc.  They're protected from
integer overflow by bignums, memory errors by bounds checking,
alloc/free errors by garbage collection, etc.  Lots of very good
developers shipping successful products have never programmed in
anything but Javascript or Python or Ruby.  Ada and C are niche
languages for embedded control and C++ is for when performance requires
it (except now Go and Rust are cutting in on that niche too).

As others have said, C++ has also improved a lot lately, with more
improvements coming.