25: The C++ is Alive
26 November 2012
After some delay our C++ Renaissance episode arrives! But did C++ really fade away? Plus Mike and Chris discuss the various use cases for C++ and the surge of Objective-C. Plus does posting publicly about software bugs make us haters? Setting expectations, the year of Qt, and more on this week’s Coder Radio!
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Episode Links
Feedback
- Victor asks “But cmon guys, where’s the screaming? You two get along too well.”
- A Listener shared his blog
- Sebastion asks: “When building a custom app for a client, how do you limit the time they take to test each iteration?”
- Hans asks if we know of any free GUI toolkits for the OGRE 3D graphics engine.
- Do Chris and Mike hate Android?
C++ The Backstory
- Created in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup
- C++ usage was always big in certain spaces but managed languages took a lot of the market share.
Why C++ and Why Now?
- The Apple / Mobile Story
- The Microsoft Story
- QT
What’s the Tooling Story?
- Visual Studio
- QT
- Eclipse
- Text Editors