in which area is c++ mostly used? [closed]

Answer 1

Most antivirus software are written in C++

Answer 2

C++ is also used heavily in real-time financial market data software. Latency here is very important. C++ is great choice since it's almost the closest to metal.

Answer 3

I have seen C++ used quite heavily in GUIs, due to the object orientated nature being sort of natural for "widgets".

I once saw it used in safety-critical code for an aircraft. This still gives me nightmares.

Answer 4

I wouldn't say Operating Systems actually. The Linux & Windows kernels are mostly C, with only userland stuff being C++ (granted, drivers could be written in anything). I'm not sure about Mach (OS X), but I wouldn't be surprised if it were mostly C as well.

C++ filled this wonderful nitch of "Object Oriented, but fast enough for dinky computers in the late-80s & early-90s". Accordingly, anything written in the 90s had a good chance of being written in C++; applications, drivers, games, whatever.

Today, new development seems to be done mostly in managed (JVM/.NET) languages. Not that there isn't any new C++ development; games, in particular, are still performance limited enough to use C++ in many cases.

In short:

1. Drivers
2. Games
3. LEGACY CODE

Answer 5

Consider this: From the introduction of MFC until the introduction of the .NET framework, C++ was the preferred language for Windows development. So that should tell you something. Preferred by Microsoft that is, many developers still prefer it to .Net languages.

C++ is a language capable of systems level programming, but also due to the provision of extensive libraries it is used for applications programming also. I would guess that almost every application running on your Desktop PC was written in C++.

If you can get a library for anything, you can almost certainly get it for C++.

It is widely used in the games industry, and to some extent in the embedded systems domain.

So I would say - 'everywhere'. It is after all a 'general purpose' programming language.

Answer 6

Any application based on Qt will use it as Qt is written in C++.

Also, since KDE is based on Qt pretty much the whole desktop environment including the applications designed to work within it are therefore written in C++.