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I'm pretty glad we use C++ in enterprise development (and extra glad we use C++11) ;) There are barely any other languages which can replace it yet. Rust is a good candidate.


You're lucky to be able to use such a recent standard in enterprise dev. Those shops tend to be pretty conservative in my experience. Where do you work?


It happened fairly recently, after the switch to the newest gcc, because we basically decoupled the compiler from the underlying distro (using cross compilation), so compiler could be updated independently. For a long time we were stuck with an old gcc.


Well I imagine you are lucky to work in an enterprise world where you get to pick skilled developers and are allowed to make proper use of C++.

I have seen quite a few projects with developers that could barely handle VB, being thrown to C++ projects.

Others where the style guide was making it, C compiled with a C++ compiler.


> I have seen quite a few projects with developers that could barely handle VB, being thrown to C++ projects.

I'm not sure why would anyone do that, if they want to produce a quality result. Finding good programmers and engineers is hard though.

> Others where the style guide was making it, C compiled with a C++ compiler.

Yes, that can be pretty annoying, and I had to deal with maintaining such code in the past. Luckily this doesn't happen anymore in our development.


> I'm not sure why would anyone do that, if they want to produce a quality result.

Pay as less as possible for project costs.




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