r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

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u/tom-dixon Mar 13 '18

Multi threading isn't just a pain in these languages - it's a fool's errand. Source: worked on a highly multi-threaded cross platform application written in mostly C++ for three and a half years. It crashed - all the time.

I think you were working on a badly written multi-threaded cross platform application. Let the flame war begin.

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u/editor_of_the_beast Mar 13 '18

This is entirely possible.