I know the trading firm I work at will be making heavy use of reflection the second it lands… we had a literal party when it made it into the standard.
> sure, but instagram was created by a handful of people with python and got a billion dollar exit in 2012.
Facebook famously felt compelled to hire eminent C++ experts to help them migrate away from their PHP backend. I still recall reading posts on the Instagram Engineering blog on how and where they used C++.
And then HipHop failed to provide as much gains as they hoped for versus the Hack JIT implementation, thus Facebook keeps writing mostly PHP like code in many of their workloads.
That the C++ migration in the end did not achieve everything they were trying to get out of it, and another more productive approach was chosen in the end.
The post you responded to said they were very happy about their tools becoming better and your reply read as a dismissal of that, citing someone having made billions by writing an advertisement platform in Python.
So either I and others misread you or it is just a matter of different views on value.
> Then again Scott Meyers said he's never written a C++ program professionally.
I think you're inadvertently misrepresenting Scott Meyers' claim.
Cited from somewhere else:
> I'll begin with what many of you will find an unredeemably damning confession: I have not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever.
He went on to clarify that he made a living out of consultancy, not writing software. He famously retired from C++ in 2015, too.
