XPost: comp.lang.c++
From: already5chosen@yahoo.com
On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:55:28 -0600
Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 2/4/2026 6:24 AM, Michael S wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 17:28:35 -0600
> > Lynn McGuire wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> > I am not sure what "swinging" means in this context and whether
> > other languages can do it or not (at very least, anything related
> > to speed that C++ can do, C can do as well, but I would be very
> > surprised if there no other options beyond C).
> > But all that sounds off topic.
> > The topic is user interface code (a.k.a. GUI) rather than
> > "swinging". C++ used to be a popular choice for coding user
> > interfaces, but it ceased to be popular long time ago.
>
> My variant of "swinging" means to load an entire dataset into memory
> which used to be very common for desktop software like mine.
>
> Lynn
>
Then I wonder what languages are *not* able to do it?
Please name a few.
Personally, I can't recollect any popular (or semi-popular) language
like that, apart from those (VB6) that never graduated into 64-bit
world.
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