XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/3/2026 2:54 AM, Michael S wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I am swinging huge datasets for simulation models from 1 MB to 1,000 MB.   
     Nothing besides C++ has the oomph and speed to make this happen.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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