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Is there any future in C++ dev as a career?

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  • 19-01-2012 4:31pm
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    lenovoguy
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭


    Hi

    I'm a developer for a small software company and we primarily use C++ or C#/.NET but I noticed there are almost no career opportunities specialising in the former. It's 3 years since I left college, and I'm looking for a change as soon as we ship the next release of our software in a few weeks time, but it looks like I'll be making a language switch to move somewhere else because apparently nobody is programming in C++ any more. Has anyone else had to do this?


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    Sparks
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    Short answer, yes.
    Longer answer, yes and people are actively hiring at the moment. I do 95% of my work in C++.


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    srsly78
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    OP you aren't looking very hard. There is lots of work for c++ out there. Finance and game development would be two obvious areas.

    C# and C++ are not mutually exclusive, you can use them together with cli/c++. This is a good thing to learn if you want to stay competitive.


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    omen80
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    I've noticed this too OP. My programming experience consists of mainly C++ and I don't see many jobs out there where it's a wanted skill. So I've started to learn Java, it's actually easy to pick up once you know C++. It's probably easier since you don't have to use pointers or worry about memory leaks. Most companies seem to look for Java / C# programmers rather than C++ from what I see.


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    jimmycrackcorm
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    There's a lot of lucrative contract work out there for good C++ skills.


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    lenovoguy
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    srsly78 wrote: »
    C# and C++ are not mutually exclusive, you can use them together with cli/c++. This is a good thing to learn if you want to stay competitive.

    Agreed, we do lots of work in both, using COM interop to stitch the different environments together.
    omen80 wrote: »
    I've started to learn Java, it's actually easy to pick up once you know C++. It's probably easier since you don't have to use pointers or worry about memory leaks. Most companies seem to look for Java / C# programmers rather than C++ from what I see.

    I cut my teeth on Java in uni and then did a bit of C++ later, but it's been 3 years since I did any Java in a commercial setting, and that was only until I was made redundant three months after I started :)


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