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Huge amount of legacy across many dimensions, not just apps written in it
[1], like number of users, published and available knowledge / resources (books, courses, blogs, articles, videos, software libraries, etc.), high compatibility with another huge language (C), etc. This is just software industry general knowledge, for those who have been there for more than a few years in the field. I am not even a proper beginner in it, because I have never used it much, although I had bought, read and to some extent, understood some classic C++ books, including by the language creator (Bjarne Stroustrup [2]), Scott Meyers [3], and a few others, earlier. I did have a lot of experience using C for many years in production, though, including on a successful commercial product. [1] https://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html [2]: https://www.stroustrup.com https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Meyers |