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According to Herb Sutter, C++ (and C and Fortran) are unmatched for performance per dollar and, therefore, he believes C++ will once again top the programming language charts as mobile devices make power consumption (which he equates with performance) a high priority again: Herb said this in his recent lecture  Why C++?  and other Microsoft employees from the Visual C++ team have called this prophecy the  "C++ Renaissance" . Similar statements about the superior performance of C++ were commonplace over 15 years ago when Java was new and unproven but we now know they were almost entirely wrong. The world migrated from native to managed languages over 10 years ago and never looked back because their performance is more than adequate. Furthermore, the implementations of managed languages have improved substantially since then and even toy benchmarks now show them competing with or even beating native code. Furthermore, the difficulty of optimizing large code bases means that...

As the world moves on to higher-level programming languages like F# , demand for C++ programmers is at an all-time low. According to IT Jobs Watch, the number of UK job postings citing C++ is continuing to fall at a rate of 40% per year . Market share of C++ among programming languages has fallen from 30% to 15% over the past four years: This has prompted employers to offer salaries up to $208k in order to secure members of the increasingly-rare breed that is C++ programmers.