[iheartmemcache]

I apologize if I came off snarky; my intention wasn't to be argumentative. All of my questions were posed with genuine curiosity rather than with the passive-aggressive tone I may have unintentionally conveyed. I certainly am not in that group of language warriors. I don't have any allegiances to languages, platforms, styles of languages, or even architectures (I'll use a Harvard based over von Neumann if it gets the job done better).

Most of the people I know choosing C++ over C# are using it for the ability to get soft-real-time guarantees w/r/t performance. E.g. the gaming development guys have a "this next framebuffer ~must~ be done within 16.6 or 33.3 ms" or "I need a deterministic 'buy/sell/hold/not-enough-information-to-say-with-a-high-confidence-factor, defer-to-safety-net-policy'". At CppCon '15 most of the people I spoke to fell into a similar camp. I don't think I even spoke with one engineer who's day job involved using C++ because <insert CLR language here> failed to have interop capabilities w/ DX or what not. Of course, those who attend conferences will bias in a certain way so I'm not making an appeal to that demographic as in any way representative of the C++ user-body.

My assertion was simply : those who are using C++ are using it out of the benefits of predictable behavior. They can't afford that situaiton of: your GC won't decide this is the appropriate time to move all those marked as Gen0->1 over and oh by the way they're all a few bits big and fragmented so no pre-fetching help for you. What makes those guys different from the guys who were ASM guys who refused to use C back in the day is that the compiler eventually outperformed the hand-rolled stuff - but even then the ASM guys were steadfast. You make some real interesting points though and you're right - I haven't looked at the C#7 roadmap. Hell, to be honest I haven't even written enough code to take advantage of Roslyn's introspective capabilities. Thanks though, insightful comment as always. (Please keep on posting and don't disappear like the good posters of yesteryear (edw519, grellas, etc)).

[edw519]

(Please keep on posting and don't disappear like the good posters of yesteryear (edw519, grellas, etc))

Thanks, Andrew. I didn't disappear. Just spending more time building and less time posting.