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7 Reasons Why You Should Keep Learning C/C++ Programming Languages in 2020

Top Reason You Can Still learn C & C++ Programming Languages are Below: 1. Helps You Learn Other Advanced Programming Languages

• • If you ever observed, you will find C/C++ as backbone for many advanced programming languages. Whether it is Java, Python, Javscript or any other programming language, all are implemented either using C or C++. Simply, by knowing the syntax or libraries of the programming language would not help you become a good programmer. You have to understand the basics of everything, and that is nothing but C/C++!

2. Improve Performance

• • In today’s fast-paced world, highly performance driven applications are crucial. Being a developer, you might be following industry-best practices for implementing a variety of solutions that can perform well. But learning C/C++ would help you gain better performance insights. You can drill-down to low-level programming and identify the root cause and improve the performance of any application.

3. Master Computer Theories and Fundamentals

• • Do you know about computer networks, OS, architecture or compiler theories? Well, these are the basic pillars of today’s advanced programming languages. If you have not learnt C/C++, you will never come to know such basic and important computer fundamentals. Learning C/C++ programming language will enable you understand such fundamentals easily and help you design protocols, API interfaces, and reliable applications.

4. C/C++ Is EVERYWHERE!

• • Whether you are talking about the operating systems, web browsers or desktop applications, C/C++ is everywhere! If you Google about the languages used to design operating system kernels, you will come to know that Windows, Linux, Android and even Mac/iOS are written in C language. All the popular web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari are powered by C++ . Moreover, if you are a game lover, you will be surprised to know that many advanced game engines are designed using C/C++ only!

5. Interfacing Languages

• • If you are working in C/C++, you will come to know that interfaces are properly defined and standardized in C language. This means it can be used by any modern programming language as you can use it with different compliers or different versions while coding and compiling it. However, the interfaces are not standardized in C++, which causes certain challenges for the developers.

6. C/C++ Is Fast and Efficient

• • As compared to any other languages, C/C++ programming languages are more performing. Of course, there are many languages which are brining high performance, but if utilized properly; C/C++ language can be faster than Java! As mentioned earlier, since you have control on the resources utilized, enterprises relay on C/C++ when they are willing achieve higher speed while reducing resource utilization.

7. It Is Really OK, If You Don’t Know C++!

• • You might get confused about the last point, right? But it is nothing to do with learning C/C++! The point highlighted here is that not all programmers or students like to learn C++ because of its tedious and complicated structure. However, if you know C language, you will be able to survive whole your life as at the end C++ is the superset of C only!.

5 Reasons to Use C++ for Android Development:

• • Although Apple and Google champion specific programming languages for mobile development (Objective-C/Swift for Apple’s iOS, and Java for Google Android), independent developers spend a lot of time figuring out how to build iOS and Android apps using other programming languages.
  • Some alternative languages include C# (Xamarin) and Pascal (Embarcadero-Rad Studio). There’s also the C++ route; for example, DragonFire SDK for iOS and Google Android. Last year, Android Studio added support for the Native Development Kit (NDK) so that developers could use C/C++ in their Java Apps.

So what are the benefits of switching to C++ for Android development? Here are five:

• • Faster Code:

A number of prominent software titles leverage C++ for cross-platform development, including Facebook Moments, Dropbox, Office, Skype, and popular games such as “Clash of Clans.” As C++ usually has no standard user Interface, the user-interface code is written in the native language and C++ used for the business logic. Java, with the JVM-optimized byte-code, can generate pretty fast code, but native (i.e., machine code) can be faster and useful in areas such as gaming, physics simulations and signal processing. Although you can do all of that in Java using JNI for low-level access, that adds a slight overhead—and that may be why native (i.e., C++) has a slight speed advantage.

• • Visual Studio:

Microsoft released the free Express version of Visual Studio in 2005, following that up with the Community edition in 2013, which allows plugins and manages them through the Nuget Package Manager. Visual Studio supported Visual C++ right from the start (along with the not-at-all popular C++/CLI, which became C++/CX for WinRT). Now C++ can be compiled to target Android and produce Native-Activity Android applications. The platform uses the CLANG toolchain when compiling for Android. (Microsoft developed this capability in-house for its own Android apps development.) Visual Studio includes a fast Android emulator along with Android Development Kits (SDK, NDK) plus Apache Ant and Oracle Java JDK, so you don’t have to switch to another platform to use external tools. Ant, Gradle and Cmake are included, but there’s also Xoreax Incredibuild, a build system that integrates into Visual Studio 2015 and leverages networked computers for speedier builds.

• • Existing Game Source Code:

There’s a lot of existing game code out there, including open-source game engines and free content. Check out Wikipedia’s list as a starting place; there are some links to resources. While not all games are programmed in C++, the sheer number of assets out there gives you the opportunity to put something together.

• • Advantages of C++ over Java:

Java is an excellent language, but for Android mobile development, C++ has a few advantages. These include a smaller memory footprint, as C++ is nearer the metal and has no garbage collection. C++ is a superset of C and should compile virtually all C programs, so you could reuse C software. Then there’s the speed issue: it’s often claimed that Java programs can run as fast as C++, and in some cases faster. While I’ve no reason to doubt it (see the section above about JVM), you may need to tweak your Java code to get that level of performance. Java source code is compiled to bytecode and stored in .jar files, which are zip files. At runtime, the JVM loads the .jar file bytecode and compiles it to machine code. This is JIT: Just-In-Time Compilation. Compare that to C++, which has no “warm up” time. For that reason, at least in my experience, C++ applications always feel a little snappier than Java (or C#) on the same hardware.

• • C++ Is Already Well-Used on Android:

First there was the Google Android NDK. Google states that, while it won’t benefit most apps, it could prove useful for CPU-intensive applications such as game engines. Then Google Labs released fplutil in late 2014; this set of small libraries and tools is useful when developing C/C++ applications for Android. And don’t forget that Google Play Services includes a C++ API.