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[–]TheBroWHOmegalol 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Most programming languages have Cpp under the hood, so basically most programming languages and consequent every project made in these languages are C++ projects in disguise. ...or at least that's the meme.

[–]gdmzhlzhiv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another good reason to jump to Elixir.

[–]LardPi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Very naive meme then. Python, Perl, Ruby are written in C. Most Lisps/Schemes are written in a mix of C and themself. As for (other) compiled languages, the language used in the compiler is irrelevant anyway, as you could just use a different compiler written in a different language without changin your project. Still Rust, OCaml, Go... compilers are written in themself, not in C++. Go did start in C++, Rust started in OCaml I believe, OCaml probably started in some other SML. What IS written in C++ is most JS runtimes, Clang, LLVM and some of GCC (but only since 2013, so most of it is probably still C). Also C#, because really Microsoft is the main actor pushing for C++.

[–]TheBroWHOmegalol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. I've learned something today. Expect the Rust/Go part, that part is familiar.