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I don't think it will ever happen, at least in the enterprise space.

Companies are quite happy to use more productive, safer, languages like the ones on top of JVM and CLR, with C++'s role being left to infrastructure code.

The OSes and tooling from Apple, Google and Microsoft are good examples of it.

C++ is there on the lower levels, for hardware support, low level graphics, language runtimes but everything else ends up in Objective-C, Swift, Java, VB.NET, C# and F#.

From all those OSes, UWP is the only one where C++ enjoys parity with the remaining languages and apparently isn't that much used.

Even Microsoft does most of their UWP presentations in C# and despite in ongoing work in C++/WinRT as C++/CX, I doubt it will change the situation that much.



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