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Comment on Ask HN: Are any other languages as big as C++?parent

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Building blocks / concepts

what is a building block? A library?

I'd be surprised if npm universe is not >10x bigger than all public c++ libraries combined.

The question is too vague to have any meaningful answer.

I agree it's too tough to define. So I'm just basing this off of vibes. One of my closest friends is a really good C++ programmer, so that's where I'm coming from. I'm not a C++ programmer at all.

I think the C++ standard might be the biggest. Like, just the amount of compiler passes it does and what means when is kind of insane. I shouldn't even have seen that in my life, yet I did. I guess that's what friends are for :')

But the ecosystem of C++ seems quite small compared to others as C++ programmers want to build stuff themselves.

So it depends if you just look at the standard versus the ecosystem.

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