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Last time I looked typical job of Senior C++ dev would pay between £35-45k. Now it seems a little bit better, but still sounds like a pittance.
Maybe they need to up the offers to the region of £300k to get people interested.
"The good news, though, is that 34.7% of respondents learning to code are using C++, placing it in the top 6 programming languages of that category." One of the problems C++ has is that this doesn't mean much. In the late 90s when I was an undergrad at college, the main language in the curriculum was C++... ... except it really wasn't. It was a dialect subset of C++ that was what undergrads could wrap their minds aro…
Also, it's changed a lot. I learned C++ as my first language, but haven't used it nor kept up with it for the past 15 years. I'm pretty sure that idiomatic C++ is just a different language now than the one I learned, despite the name and basic syntax staying the same.
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Anecdotal evidence to support what you're saying. I had a large group of devs I used to hang out with. It was about 50/50 front-end and C, C++ guys. Over the last decade or so, every single C developer either transitioned to PHP like yourself, or went the full-stack JS route and have never looked back. And it was all over the issues around dealing with legacy systems and the poor pay. One guy told me flat out he can…
Hmm, what is the highest paying JS job you have seen/heard of? I am not particularly good and by far the highest quote I've ever gotten was ~100k euro after taxes. Not bad at all but required relocation. Just how much can a skilled JS dev get paid?
In general, the big cos hire maybe 1 JS dev for every 2 or 3 backend devs. But they're on the same payscale. From what I've heard, it's more challenging to climb the level ladder, but if you come in at a terminal level and aren't particularly interested in that stuff, it's pretty comfortable.
You can't just take Joe Blow and send him to a C++ bootcamp and expect him to be useful.
Writing new C++ code with all the modern approaches and tooling doesn't sound so bad. Troubleshooting a big legacy C++ codebase is probably something that Dante would have included in his Inferno as a punishment for pride and hubris.
Heh. I'm pretty proficient in modern C++, and it is my favorite tool for a lot of things, but my PHP job pays way more than any C++ position available. Did an interview once for Senior C++ Engineer, embedded software in the medical device space. All went good, until the offer: $100k. Articles like this are nothing more than a desperate attempt at getting younger generations to learn said topic, so companies can pay t…
The only well paid embedded jobs involve producing weapons ('defence') or gambling ('gaming'), and I'd rather sell crack to kindergartners while also prostituting myself than do that. I did get a bunch of those offers and still do get them every now and again, even though I'm happily employed.
Moved to finance, never looked back. People should plain refuse to work in embedded, maybe then thing will get better.
Also, C++ is the differentiator. People hire for other languages (C# and Rust, in my experience) based on your deep C++ knowledge. And this does make sense, this is a great proxy for your development skills and potential.
I feel like I am in a decently unique situation where I learned C++ throughout my preteens and teens, and got a job straight out of high school writing C++ for Unreal Engine applications. Most of the C++ jobs I see when I look are things that I just honestly do not want to do. I don't really mind working with the language and wouldn't mind sticking with it. But I don't want to work on financial software, as I don't w…
Google, Amazon, & Microsoft are nearly always hiring talented C++ engineers. So you're not limited to finance. Quite the opposite. I'd be surprised if the majority of C++ jobs had anything to do with finance.
There are plenty of talented C++ programmers. They just don't want to be abused by trading firms or work in that culture. Even paying them more won't work, because no amount of money is worth that abuse. I interviewed at a trading firm once, while I was working at Netflix (because Netflix encouraged us to interview for outside jobs at least once a year). The comp would have been double my Netflix salary. But I would…
This is what Apple does as well. So not all FAANGs are equal here.
I try to keep up with the new standards and incorporate features that I find useful in my code, but the majority of it would probably compile with a C++11 compiler. If I were to suddenly be introduced to a code base written by someone proficient in C++20 with some C++23 features sprinkled in; I would likely require some time to figure out what some of the newer code actually does.
Looking at job postings in my area (flyover state), I seems kind of rare when a job is posted that is primarily looking for someone proficient in C++.
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CUDA is C++ I imagine some work is also useful on CPUs, and C++ is one of the most efficient languages.
Yeah, kinda, CUDA is c++ that I can't run cppcheck or clang tidy on, and the important bits are either calls into the cu* libraries which are c style, or kernels, which are really their own thing.
But the CPU-drivers of CUDA are all C++. Albeit a C-like API (cudaMalloc, lol), but its a clang compiler for the CPU code nonetheless. If you have complex GPU + CPU interactions, you'll need to be a C++ expert.
Even if you aren't doing GPU work and sticking "only" with CPU-side CUDA, its all C++.