Why are Python and Rust much more popular than C++ nowadays?
The programming languages people talk about are not necessarily the
languages people use. The programming languages developers like are
also not necessarily the languages they use.
Python is used extensively by beginners, which means it is talked
about a lot. It’s also used extensively in some trendy and rapidly
developing fields, which is also gets it talked about.
Rust is incredibly interesting to a lot of experienced programmers, and
gets a lot of attention. That doesn’t mean there are that many active
projects out there, although some of them really matter to the future
of the industry, so it’s a significant subject… even if they all eventually
fail, what we learn from them and from rust will change things.
There are billions of lines of C++ out there. N0, not exaggerating, there
really is that much C++ code. Google alone has about a billion lines of
it.
The computing world is made of C++, Java, C, Fortran and COBOL
hardly get talked about, but there are still vast quantities of both in
daily use and constant maintenance.
But if you spend your days writing banking systems in Java or COBOL,
aren’t you going to like rust or Python for personal projects, just for
the extremely different development experience.
