nobody wants c++?

[dis1411]

i'm not quite ready to enter the job market yet.. but from what i've seen employers are more interested in programmers of the latest and greatest (.NET) vs say c++/win32.

true/untrue?

if all they know is they want the latest and greatest, i should stay away? or just take what i can get?

[sunburnt]

That's a good question, but I'm not really qualified to answer. I think General Developer or Chit Chat might be a better place to ask this question; let me know and I can move it.

[CornedBee]

Different fields demand different skills. Most jobs that involve writing custom applications for various companies will generally favour RAD languages over C++ and similar, for the simple reason that it's faster and cheaper to develop applications with them.
The general-purpose applications are still usually written in C++, for various reasons. Big software companies will often favour C++ skills, as do companies that require lots-of-computation applications like the one I'm working at right now. There are fewer of these companies, and thus fewer jobs, but they might pay better on average. (Haven't checked.)

It is my opinion and experience, though, that once you know C++ learning Java and C# is easy, so you could just do that and be qualified for just about every programming job that might be thrown at you.

[ComputerJy]

Different fields demand different skills. Most jobs that involve writing custom applications for various companies will generally favour RAD languages over C++ and similar, for the simple reason that it's faster and cheaper to develop applications with them.
The general-purpose applications are still usually written in C++, for various reasons. Big software companies will often favour C++ skills, as do companies that require lots-of-computation applications like the one I'm working at right now. There are fewer of these companies, and thus fewer jobs, but they might pay better on average. (Haven't checked.)

It is my opinion and experience, though, that once you know C++ learning Java and C# is easy, so you could just do that and be qualified for just about every programming job that might be thrown at you.

Java isn't RAD, .NET languages are!!

It takes years to learn C++ professionally, it's not an easy language... But even if takes time, I assure you it's all worth it.

But as CornedBee said, Only large companies and companies that work on General purpose applications, use C++.

And "Yes" the paycheck is bigger

[CornedBee]

Java is as much RAD as C# is. The languages have pretty much the same capabilities. The interface designers have similar capabilities.

The only thing missing from Java is some control that directly displays DB query results, and I believe there are 3rd-party libraries for that.