A more extreme version of this would be COBOL right? Even if people stopped writing C++ today the amount of code that's already written will last many lifetimes.
Sure, I do not advise people to go learn COBOL either. In fact, I never learned COBOL, they were writing COBOL at the first place I "worked" as a teenager† and it was clearly not the future.
† in the UK there was a discrepancy between what happens to the sort of teenager who exhibits talent and interest in an area like writing software, who is sent to just watch adults doing that and mostly doesn't do any actual work themselves as "Work Shadowing", versus those whose direction seems more... manual who are expected to actually go do stuff in the same period, supervised by adults of course, but still very much doing the actual work, "Work Experience". This seems very obviously unfair, although of course as the teenager who wasn't expected to actually do much I wasn't complaining at the time...
What is the future now? Or what was the future when I was watching grown-ups programming in COBOL over thirty years ago?
Thirty years ago the future was C++. How did that work out? Seems like it was pretty popular, this thread is about the third edition of a book about it.
