A few recent conversations have reminded me that while I’ve been focused on bringing my Java, C# and JavaScript up to a high polish, I’ve been doing very little C++.

C++ has been my go-to language for most of my career. I haven’t written any significant amount of C++ code in a couple of years though so now is likely a good time to circle back in the sandbox at home. Not sure what I’ll write, but I’m sure I’ll find something.

Still trying to deal with a bunch of house stuff at the same time so this is likely to be slow going in the near term…

That being said, I’m still inclined to view C#, Java and JavaScript as important parts of the whole picture. Developer productivity in C# and Java is much higher than in C++, even for someone skilled in both languages. JavaScript offers an easy and dynamic environment for tasks that benefit from ease of change and don’t involve huge amounts of code. JavaScript driving a web UI very much seems to be the way things are heading…at least for serious commercial user interfaces…combine ease of development with local/remote transparency and a wealth of tools and things like MFC, WPF and JavaFX have a hard time competing.