[zerr]

You can be pretty productive even with 70% of the language :) It is a common misconception that C++ is suitable only for game engines and similar domains. It is perfectly fine for applications domain as well.

As a side note, regarding your profile info, unless you are based in North Korea, please at least add one 0 to your rate. You'll get more long-term and high-quality clientele.

[fc417fc802]

> You can be pretty productive even with 70% of the language

Or even far less than that. I like to use it as C with lambdas and namespaces. Sprinkle in metaprogramming as needed. Even just not having to remember to call cleanup code thanks to dtors would alone be enough to sell me on it.

[CupricTea]

I once wrote a pure C project years back that made heavy use of complex numbers and 2D/3D vector math. At one point I got so fed up debugging my expressions under an endless parentheses-hell of `vadd(vmul(vadd(...), vadd(vmul(...))))` that I threw my hands up and changed the file extensions to .cpp just to use std::complex<T> and enough operator overloading to type vector expressions like a human being.

[pjmlp]

Only by people that started working in Web during the 2000's.

Back in the 90's, it was the main business language alongside Smalltalk, Delphi and VB.

Hence the plethora of C++ frameworks to chose from, sadly most dead since .NET and Java took over most of the use cases.

[jdw64]

Honestly, I don't expect to find clients here. Fundamentally, you have to trust me to give me work. The amount of money doesn't really matter much to me.

[zerr]

I mean, the lower rates arouse suspicions. The higher you value your work, the more trustworthy you appear to clients.

[jdw64]

Thank you for the advice. I'll think about it. Or maybe just remove the price altogether.