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Facebook Has a New Private Mobile Photo-Sharing App, and They Built It In C++
jfruh writes: Facebook [on Monday] announced Moments, a new mobile app that uses Facebook's facial recognition technology to let you sync up photos only with friends who are in those photos with you. Somewhat unusually for a new app, the bulk of it is built in the venerable C++ language, which turned out to be easier for building a cross-platform mobile app than other more "modern" languages.
>>>Facebook announced Moments, a new mobile app that uses Facebook's facial recognition technology to let you sync up photos only with friends who are in those photos with you, advertisers who are unlikely in these photos, law enforcement agents who are probably not in these photos, APT hackers that are no in these photos, and that dude who specializes in recovering data from used electronics that always presents at the conference.
Fixed that for you.
If C++ is "the best tool" for cross-platform mobile app development, then the state of mobile app development is in a sorry state indeed.
Seriously if C++ is the best we can do for *anything*, then we need to just throw in the towel and go back to pencil and paper right now.
Taking such a strident and dogmatically absolutist stance on the usefulness of any language indicates a lack of experience in the field and a narrowness of understanding of the field. It sounds like someone told you it was really, really bad, and, knowing nothing else, you simply repeat what they said.
C++ is, syntactically, not my favorite language. It's not even my second favorite language. But for its breadth of application, the ubiquity of compilers on any platform, and the sheer volume of useable libraries, it is up there on my list.
We could call it 'getting facefucked' and the cameras could now squirt semen in people's face to complete the experience.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
On what planet is C++ an unusual choice?