XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 21:02:51 +0100   
   🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱  wrote:   
      
   > W dniu 24.01.2026 o 04:35, Lynn McGuire pisze:   
   > > One of my programmers has been working on converting our Windows   
   > > user interface, written in 450,000 lines of C++, from Ascii to   
   > > Unicode for two years now.  It was a one year project to start and   
   > > his latest estimate is another year to complete.     
   >    
   > I think that this task should be named "rewrite". But I recommended    
   > "clean up" instead. In the case "clean up" you have great opportunity   
   > to make your app far better than previous. Modern industry approach,   
   > is modularity. This is prove in many essential industry branch, and    
   > especially in IIww years.   
   >    
      
   It seems to me that industry trend in GUI programming is to stay as far   
   away from C++ as possible.   
   JS is a king.    
   C#, Swift, Kotlin are second choice.    
   Even Java is still used for new development in this feild, despite   
   technically being almost as unsuitable as C++.   
   But C++ is strictly legacy, no new, from scratch GUI development is done   
   in this language for something like 15 years.   
      
   Of course, the statement above is "at large". The world is a big   
   place and one can always find one developer or one hundred or ten   
   thousands that make unusual sub-optimal choices.   
      
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