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bet9ja:
It is relevant, you won't notice because we don't have all this nairaland theme installers advertising that they will build a project with C++ for N10,000. Only the engineers know the value of it.

Balenciagabrain:
Hello,
May I kindly get your candid opinions? I recently am pitching for I.T which I am having problem with choosing which language to go for but I finally considering to settle for C++. I hope I am not going for what may have become outdated.
Besides, may I also know more specifics about C++... I would be very much grateful for your kindness.

Kimjongun:
Learn C and thank me later.

Although thanks to Covid there are remote positions for C++ developers now, but you can hardly see Nigerian companies using C++ directly. C++ is used for heavy softwares, and since what we do mostly in Nigeria is web and mobile app, you can easily do these with frameworks that has abstracted the heavy lifting that C++ is good at.

If you are planning on using your skill to look for job here in Nigeria, learn any of C, JavaScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, PHP, etc

C++ is not outdated, the latest version of C++ is C++20 and the community are already working on C++23.

New projects are being built with C++ daily.

You can do everything and anything with C++ but the problem is you have to be a very good programmer to be productive, because C++ doesn't have all the cool frameworks you see in most languages, or even when it has, it may not fit your need.

For someone who didn't study Computer Science or an experienced programmer and is looking to get into the Nigeria software development labour market as fast as possible C++ is not your best shot

These are examples of cool opensource projects created in C++

https://github.com/chromium/chromium
https://github.com/google/filament
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
https://github.com/nginx/nginx
https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
https://github.com/scylladb/scylla
https://github.com/nodejs/node
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/

And many more, most softwares that are relevant are built with C++.
C++ run the world, but you need to be really good at it

To add to this, last year before the pandemic I get two offers consecutively one from Netherlands and one from Dubai, the Netherland offer is a car company looking for C++ guys for their computer vision works, the Dubai guys were into enterprise solutions, but because of my situation at the time and I fear the stability of both offers. I hold on to my Naija job

inspire22great:
@Kimjongun please what is then ones best shot to get in Nigeria software development labour market?

" For someone who didn't study Computer Science or an experienced programmer and is looking to get into the Nigeria software development labour market as fast as possible C++ is not your best shot "

Deicide:
C++ outdated? thought am not sure companies in Nigeria use it that much, you would be better off learning Java or python. but no C++ is widely used worldwide.

KenModi:
Wrong. C++ isn’t outdated. Just say it is not used in Nigeria. Outside Nigeria especially in Europe and America, yes it is used. When it comes to programming for video games, C++ remains very relevant especially in Unreal Engine despite the possibility of using blueprints.

Deicide:
Where in my write-up did I say it is outdated, Abi you no Sabi read?

nullbyte:
still good....i use it for malware development

Bahat:
Move to python for malware dev bro. That’s where everyone is rn!!!

Bahat:
Move to python for malware dev bro. That’s where everyone is rn!!!

Kimjongun:
JavaScript or typescript, learn to build application with Node, it's relatively simple, has lots of resources for beginners and you can get a job easily. Most Nigeria companies has a Node team

You can use either of typescript or JavaScript to build application for Node

nullbyte:
Did Python before C++. It made my understanding of C++ much easier!!!

Deicide:
How did Python which is a dynamically typed language helped you understand C++?

Deicide:
How did Python which is a dynamically typed language helped you understand C++?

SweetVibe:
Some of them just type lies just to feel among

Kimjongun:
Learn C and thank me later.

Although thanks to Covid there are remote positions for C++ developers now, but you can hardly see Nigerian companies using C++ directly. C++ is used for heavy softwares, and since what we do mostly in Nigeria is web and mobile app, you can easily do these with frameworks that has abstracted the heavy lifting that C++ is good at.

If you are planning on using your skill to look for job here in Nigeria, learn any of C, JavaScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, PHP, etc

C++ is not outdated, the latest version of C++ is C++20 and the community are already working on C++23.

New projects are being built with C++ daily.

You can do everything and anything with C++ but the problem is you have to be a very good programmer to be productive, because C++ doesn't have all the cool frameworks you see in most languages, or even when it has, it may not fit your need.

For someone who didn't study Computer Science or an experienced programmer and is looking to get into the Nigeria software development labour market as fast as possible C++ is not your best shot

These are examples of cool opensource projects created in C++

https://github.com/chromium/chromium
https://github.com/google/filament
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
https://github.com/nginx/nginx
https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
https://github.com/scylladb/scylla
https://github.com/nodejs/node
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/

And many more, most softwares that are relevant are built with C++.
C++ run the world, but you need to be really good at it

To add to this, last year before the pandemic I get two offers consecutively one from Netherlands and one from Dubai, the Netherland offer is a car company looking for C++ guys for their computer vision works, the Dubai guys were into enterprise solutions, but because of my situation at the time and I fear the stability of both offers. I hold on to my Naija job