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Digital Literacy

Question about C++

Hello, I am wondering why there are not any tutorials/courses about C++. Has C++ bad future? Is it better to learn golang?

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,785 Points

C++ is growing in popularity.

In a recent survey, C++ was ranked at #5 based on the number of job listings for it. This is a higher rank than it held in a similar survey in 2016. But it tends to be used mostly for things other than web technologies. C++ is a powerful, high-performance language often used to build system software, games engines and desktop applications. It is also generally considered to have a steeper learning curve that most web-oriented languages.

When someone asked a similar question 6 months ago, staff member Jay Padzensky replied:

While C++ is indeed a powerful language, Treehouse tends to focus on technologies more commonly associated with web development and modern languages are generally far easier to use than C++ for such tasks.

FYI: The 4 most popular languages according to that survey are (starting with #1), SQL, Java, Python, and JavaScript.

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Tomas,

If you search "C++" in the Treehouse Community, there are many, many discussions about this very question.

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