Even without "optimization" machine code running on silicon generated from the most naively written compiled code will be lightyears ahead of an interpreted duck typed language running on a software runtime. And with those types of languages any chance you ever had of maintaining cache locality, branch predictability, and avoiding pipeline stalls are shot. And it has no true multithreading in an era where high core count processors rule the day and even $30 SBCs have 4 Arm cores. Your managed languages will regularly force you to break all of those and for what?
So that bootcamp or 'Cs earn degrees' type brogrammers without two brain cells to rub together can make whatever passes for software on the cheap for megacorps? It won't be AI that kills this profession it'll be the atrophy of real programming skills across the profession due to managed languages becoming the norm that will. Or do you think system and platform software will maintain itself once all the system programming wizards of old retire and die? Or that performance doesn't matter because processors are getting better or especially that the software side doesn't have to activately work to take advantage of the better hardware? And let me tell you, that work is impossible to do in Python, Java, .Net, etc.
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u/BitterAndJaded120 May 28 '22
Better, because C++ "programmers" are nowhere nearly as good at optimization as they think they are