# The C++ is Alive

URL: /show/coder-radio/25/
> After some delay our C++ Renaissance episode arrives! But did C++ really fade away? Plus Mike and Chris discuss the various use cases for C++ and the surge of Objective-C. Plus does posting publicly about software bugs make us haters? Setting expectations, the year of Qt, and more on this week’s Coder Radio!

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 25
- Date: 2012-11-26
- Hosts: chris, michael
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wr99EMiwmN8





### Episode Links

#### Feedback

  * Victor asks “But cmon guys, where's the screaming? You two get along too well.”
  * [A Listener shared his blog](_www.view-source-code.com/index.html)
  * Sebastion asks: “When building a custom app for a client, how do you limit the time they take to test each iteration?”
  * Hans asks if we know of any free GUI toolkits for the OGRE 3D graphics engine.
  * Do Chris and Mike hate Android?

#### C++ The Backstory

  * Created in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup
  * C++ usage was always big in certain spaces but managed languages took a lot of the market share.

#### Why C++ and Why Now?

  * The Apple / Mobile Story
  * The Microsoft Story
  * QT

#### What’s the Tooling Story?

  * Visual Studio
  * QT
  * Eclipse
  * Text Editors

#### So I Should Always Use C++ ?

#### Book of the Week

  * [C Programming Language, 2nd Edition](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131103628?SubscriptionId=0RGQ32M03RDWT5YF2K82&tag=thelinactsho-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0131103628)