The cover of “Practice of Programming” book read – simplicity, clarity and generality.

C++ misses on at least first two of them.
Another point of view is for any tool design there is some amount of mistake-proofing. In C++, I find there is really little.

With this new proposed release, they are just moving further away.

Complexity is a real monster in programming world and programmers truly concerned with performance have stuck to simplicity of C.

Want to share one recent change: Starting with this year (may be last year) C++ is not being taught in Computer Science courses. Now the new set becomes – C, Java and C#.

A similar issue appears with “who’s” v.s. “whose”:
“Who’s going to the beach with me!?” (not me… if you can change it to “who is”, then use the apostrophe)
“Whose workstation is this!? Porn in the workplace is against company policy!” (otherwise, use “whose” instead)

And just because I like things that come in threes (or to be more precise, I like items in quantities of Mersenne numbers), a quick discussion of the contraction “ain’t”:
“I ain’t going to do it.” (if you can change it to “am not”, it is used properly)
“We ain’t going anywhere!” (otherwise, you should consider an alternative… it’s all about subject-verb agreement)

Corrected (and you thought C++ syntax was arcane).

Also, for the love of god, the possessive “its” does not have an apostrophe!

I think I am very productive in C++/Qt. I know them both very well and have learnt to work around some of their shortcomings. They are my preferred choice for developing efficient, portable, native desktop apps for the foreseeable future.

C++ does have quite a learning curve for new developers though. But you don’t have to use every feature of the language just ‘because it is there’. Also you can avoid many of the ‘gotchas’ by reading Scott Meyer’s books.

I can’t say whether C++ is right for you. You might find this previous post interesting though:
http://successfulsoftware.net/2008/03/24/choosing-a-development-stack-for-windows-desktop-applications/

I understand that rewriting pefect table plan into a new framework would not make any sense, however I’m wondering if you’re thinking
using another language for your future product.

My main concern with C++ even with a framework such as Qt, is the productivity.
But then unlike you, I have never use C++ commercially, and I think it does make a hell of a difference.

Would you agree that learning C++ for creating a new product is a fast track for suicide, considering the steep learning curve before someone can become proficient in C++.

I think that for a pure CRUD app I do find C++ being an overkill …

Basically, it supports rvalue references, variadic templates, decltype and static_assert, along with a few other minor bits and pieces.

gcc 4.4 supports even more of C++0x, but it’s not released yet. See http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html for an overview of gcc C++0x support across all versions.

Regexes you can get with boost and the TR1 update for MSVC. Lambdas and type inference will have to wait. They’re in the VS10 CTP (I think), but not in any production compiler.

Preliminary support for concepts is available in ConceptGCC (http://www.generic-programming.org/software/ConceptGCC/), but it’s not a complete implementation.

How much of C++0x is supported by gcc 4.3 now?

As someone who works with C++, but plays with OCaml, Haskell and Ruby, I’m really looking forward to some of these features – especially lambdas, type inference and regexes. The concepts sounds interesting as well.