| Microsoft's Office suite is primarily C++. There was an attempt to start using more C# a couple years ago, but it's still mostly C++. On a closed-source project, it's hard to get the details. But the open source projects, however, we can get a very clear picture. OpenOffice: [1]
10.4 million lines of C++
1.2 million lines of Java
*edit* noticed you mentioned LibreOffice, not OpenOffice
LibreOffice: [2]
5.7 million lines of C++
0.4 million lines of Java
Firefox: [3]
4.0 million lines of C++
1.8 million lines of C
1.7 million lines of javascript
MySql: [4]
7.0 million lines of C++
4.0 million lines of C
0.4 million lines of javascript
0.3 million lines of Java
The point I'm trying to make is that C++ is widely used, and definitely not used just for gaming.> Most new development isn't done in C++ Whether or not C++ is the right choice for new development is a different question. Github posted their top 20 languages for new repositories in 2013 [5]. C++ is #6 and has more new projects than C, Objective-C and C#. Even if it's fading in popularity, that's still a lot of new projects in C++. [1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice/analyses/latest/languages_... [2] http://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice/analyses/latest/languages... [3] https://www.ohloh.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_su... [4] http://www.ohloh.net/p/mysql/analyses/latest/languages_summa... [5] http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-fa... |