Ok, I'm trying to think of a silver lining of all this.
Trump and brexit are about bringing changes. For brexit to work, it has to be hard brexit, for Trump to work, he has to follow through the things he said. And they must show the changes they bring are good, for example, there need to be more jobs, less foreigner, working class people take home more money, etc. When my thought reached this point, I'm thinking: it's impossible for them to do it. They either bring the economy down and hurt more people, or they betray their supportors. Either way will spell disaster for this Trump/Brexit ideology and put an end to it.
Brexit/Trump fail => People support them realise they made a mistake => less people support far right Isolationism => we restore the happy central liberal world.
But then I realise how wrong I was, they don't have to make it work for everyone, they just need to please the people who supported them, which is only half of the country, they have the other half to screw over with. They CAN make it work in the short term for some people, like Hilter did between 1933-1939. But then what..?
Most experienced C++ programmers just put up with it, they really want to be using something else, but have lacked, and continue to lack options.
If you are experienced, however, it's not difficult to find work. Video games. Space, aerospace, automotive, and military industry. IoT. Wherever you can imagine heavily constrained embedded systems. Or in the case of games, where you have 16.67 milliseconds to render a frame.
I agree, but most of the things you mentioned are done by big companies like google, most startups labeled with deep learning/ai are using python or javascript.
I don't see why C++ should be dead in startup world. With the emerging of AI, machine learning and fintech, you would think there's plenty of opportunity for using C++. I know there are plenty of C++ jobs in google/facebook, banks(i work there), but still, 0 startup on AngelList is surprising, I was thinking it's at least as (un)popular as java and C#.
C++ might be used. By calling it from Python or Java or Haskell, which will allow you to iterate 10 times faster than using it directly. Startups are trying to prove that their business idea works. This idea usually involves using existing technology to solve some business problems, rarely it requires development of lower layers of the stack. This may come later - or may come never. You can easily use machine learning without knowing what C++ is.
Trump and brexit are about bringing changes. For brexit to work, it has to be hard brexit, for Trump to work, he has to follow through the things he said. And they must show the changes they bring are good, for example, there need to be more jobs, less foreigner, working class people take home more money, etc. When my thought reached this point, I'm thinking: it's impossible for them to do it. They either bring the economy down and hurt more people, or they betray their supportors. Either way will spell disaster for this Trump/Brexit ideology and put an end to it.
Brexit/Trump fail => People support them realise they made a mistake => less people support far right Isolationism => we restore the happy central liberal world.
But then I realise how wrong I was, they don't have to make it work for everyone, they just need to please the people who supported them, which is only half of the country, they have the other half to screw over with. They CAN make it work in the short term for some people, like Hilter did between 1933-1939. But then what..?
So no silver lining after all.