Yesterday, InfoWorld published a interview with Bjarne Stroustrup about the new stuff in C++ 11. He mentioned for example multithreading, lock-free concurrency, improvements in returning large data structures and the range-for loop. The following two questions were also very interesting …
InfoWorld: How does C++ compare to languages like Java, C#, or the dynamic scripting languages that are proliferating lately?
Stroustrup: I can’t do a detailed comparison, but C++ is more flexible (for good and bad) and tends to perform significantly better, assuming competent developers in all languages compared....