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    Read what you are writing. You are outright claiming that using C++ for general purpose programming over C# is laughable. Is this sincerely a fact you believe in, or is it merely your own exaggerated opinion? Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 14:26
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    @zxcdw - If I have 100 general programming problems, I will get ~90 of them done faster, better, with fewer bugs using C# or Java or Python or Scala or... And that's being generous. This is the common viewpoint of pretty much every professional programmer I know; even the ones who use C++ as their primary language. Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 14:40
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    @zxcdw: I'm a hardcore C++ developer. I've done C++ for 15+ years and worked mostly on back-end apps that need C++. I've been all over STL and half the Boost. Much to dismay of my team I've introduced template metaprogramming in few places that I thought deserved it. Point I'm trying to make is that I love C++ and working with it. Having said that, I agree with Telastyn, if I have a general problem that doesn't require what C++ has to offer, I would rather pick up C# or even Python. They are higher level languages and you simply get things done faster in them. This true at least for Win devs Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 15:22
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    @MadKeithV - If I weren't working on a C# app that's being run on OSX, iOS and Android, I might give that cross platform argument a little more weight. Even ignoring that, the non-C# languages I listed are almost always better options than C++ when cross-platform is a strong concern. C++11 isn't doing much to push those options away. Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 15:35
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    If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The improvements in C++11 won't diminish the pervasive impact of C# and other similar, but perhaps more platform agnostic languages, rather it will keep that ship afloat. The biggest selling point of C++11 remains that it can be the end-to-end language for a system that pokes around in the depths of a system, yet offers the opportunity for tinkering around with higher order abstractions. Commented Oct 31, 2012 at 18:45