[pjmlp]

Sadly it is not a stigma,

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/

34% don't use any kind of unit testing.

35% don't use any kind of static analysis tooling.

36% don't use any kind of guidelines.

[rhodysurf]

I wouldn’t rely on JetBrians survey to tell the whole story for C++. TONS of places use Visual Studio for C++ and would never even know about a JetBrains survey

[pjmlp]

Naturally it isn't representative of the whole industry, but it does show a trend.

I can also post a ISO C++ one with similar results.

Or the video from Herb Sutter's talk at CppCon, where only 1% of the audience confirmed using any form of static analysers.

As anecdote, many enterprise places that use VC++ are still using versions like 2008 or 2010 and writing code as MFC/ATL had just been released.

The same kind of shops that are running Red-Hat enterprise 5, some Java version pre-8, and such.

[Matthias247]

Those might be even worse.

I think my experience correlates with the study. Most lower level code that I had seen used neither unit-tests nor any good structuring. At least in close-to-hardware projects that seems to be more the rule than an exception. I think this is due to many contributors there not having a pure software-engineering background. Those often have not worked in other higher level stacks and therefore are not familiar with practices.