RE: Table-pounding Evangelism of Visual C++

Mark Richards — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:54:00 GMT

I guess I'm a little late on this, but I just read the InfoWorld article referenced in this blog entry, and I couldn't agree more with the author's assessment of the current direction of VC++. I, and many of the developers I talk with regularly, are truly disappointed with how MS has tried to push natvie C++ away in favor of "safer" and "managed" technologies. Today's best Windows applications are written in native C++, and I believe (strongly) that C++ remains an excellent language for developing for the Windows platform. It should remain a high priority of Microsoft, and not be relegated to some obscure "systems level" language (as has already been suggested). I dunno, maybe I'm just behind the times, but I'd love to see VC++ regain its former glory in Whibdey.

re: Table-pounding Evangelism of Visual C++

Robert Björn — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:32:00 GMT

Microsoft are moving quickly towards .NET (WinFx in Longhorn is fully based on managed APIs, after all), and as such I think it's important that there is a viable migration path for C++ applications. It needs to be possible to do just about anything in C++ -- cleanly -- that can be done in C#. While I am a big advocate of standards and generally hate custom "extensions, "I think that this is one of the cases where it might be not only acceptable but necessary.

Thanks for your very interesting articles, Brandon!