Today we are betting on Swift against Object C, take help of Java for Android, and C# for Windows. All are different but doing same thing, mobile app development so why we are not concentrating on C++ a common language for all those platform? Let's check in this post in brief.
As a modern software developer, if I am going to talk about C and C++. it seems that I am wasting my time on this antique pieces. Unfortunately, we all forget one thing that the modern mobile development languages have their syntax based on this C class languages and most importantly all branches begins from C or C++ code and it styles. Objective C has traces of direct ancestors in this C class language as first C++ was developed in 1972 by Bell Labs.
If you look at the aim of this C++ language creation, you will find that all has done for sake of object-oriented language, simplicity, and flexibility with time and demands. These are nothing, but great characteristics of an evergreen language and fortunately, C++ has everything we need in a contemporary language.
The Biggest Ever Developer Community
Since 1988 when first ANSI/ISO standards set up for C++, the last update in 2011 as C++11 version has grabbed somewhere 11 millions software developer in its community. As C++ has birth place in Bell Labs, it has wide-spread usage in all electronic and communication devices where some sort of operating system exists. It is middle ware in terms of hardware kernel and software OSs.
Technical Superiority of C++
Java has borrowed its syntax heavily from C++ and C# is nothing but almost all libraries and other tools borrowed from C++. Game engines on iOS, Android, Mac OS or Windows, never run without the help of C++. Android Java lobby also take help of C++ by avoiding usage of Java Run Time Dalvik, a virtual machine when hardware support becomes critical and use C++.
Fortunately, C++ supports C functional interfaces for various libraries so RTL/STL as well as OpenGL ES like graphics libraries have excellent support under umbrella of C++. Mobile application has great things in C++ because it is a client side development language, but support extensively server-side as well as cloud computing software too. It is compiled language so it can run directly on CPU or processors. Therefore, you have greater chances for wearable devices like smart glasses and smart watches too.
C++ A Best Selection for Development Languag
Thus, if you as a mobile software developer, wetting your hands in C++ for all sort of mobile platforms, you don't need to go to learn any other language like Object C, Java/Android, C#, or recently developed Swift. Just code once in C++ and run your mobile app on any platform or on any device. How do you get better selection of the language for development other than C++?
Never, so try to begin with C++ your next mobile app development project and write something in the comment box. After all the selection of C++ as a development language is a matter of commonsense in terms of technical superiority.