C++: The Documentary

It's surprising that C++'s development trend continues.

When a game or program is made with C++, it's usually nice because performance is mostly guaranteed. But if someone told me to write C++ myself, I'd cry. There's too much to memorize, and the standards are too varied. When I go to a project site for maintenance and it's a C++ project, I instantly lose energy — because it's just too difficult.

I'd be happy if someone else wrote it, but it's not a language I want to write myself

Since I've been working in C++ a lot recently I decided to watch the video as I waited for a build to complete. So the length is about right. And fortunately, the video is a delight!

I‘m out of the loop: we‘ve had Python, Clojure and possibly something else recently. Is that a series by the same people working through several languages? Is it happenstance? Is it a trend, and every programming language is now scrambling to get their own video documentary?

Is it better than the Erlang documentary?

> currently (as of Q3 2025) the fastest-growing of the top four languages in the world… +90% users in the past 3.5 years.

Because of AI, right?

Oh great, the documentary about the least interesting programming language ever created :)

Haven’t watched it yet, but I hope they mentioned how Stroustrup was asking people not to criticise the language publicly back in a day, because it would hurt adoption (I heard this from one of the Casey M’s videos from a few years back).

         +90% users in the past 3.5 years