Take the 2-minute tour ×  There's recently some voice about C++
renaissance, among which the most noteworthy one is from Herb
Sutter, Chairman of the C++ Standard Committee. You can search
for "C++ renaissance" on Google and you'd find a bunch of links
including Herb's talk on "C++ and Beyond" and other talks on
Channel9 from Microsoft.  The key argument here is that with the
Cloud trend becoming clearer and more popular than ever, a lot
of the dev work on the cloud side calls for high-performance
native languages, which on some level, basically means C/C++. I
don't mean to start again some flame war about C vs C++. But I
do want to know to what extent does this trend affect the
growing and expanding of C++ community and popularity.  How
exactly are C++ used on the cloud side? high-perf backend? more?
How large, exactly, is the Cloud dev market anyway?  P.S. I've
been lucky to be able to use C++0x in my project recently, and
it is *awesome* (VC++10). The most useful feature for everyday
programming is of cour