Software complexity has been Growing exponentially over the past decade or so but we are still using essentially the same programming language to develop most performance software. Do you see an end in sight or are there any new specialized languages or language features (other than DX9 obviously) which will dramatically reduce the code complexity of future projects?
 
Tim: Most major software today is developed in C++, with some tools often built in Java and C#. These languages have fairly poor complexity-scaling curves, and don't do anything to ease the use of multithreading, which will be critical shortly as Intel and AMD release dual-core CPU's in 2005.
 
While C++ certainly remains viable -- and, is realistically, the "least bad" solution available today -- I feel that we're approaching the same sort of diminishing returns that caused early developers to switch from Assembly Language to C, and then from C to C++. For the coming generation, we can and well get by just fine with C++, but I feel a consensus will emerge around the end of the decade that current development approaches are broken and need to be rethought.
 
Unfortunately, there isn't a clear successor to C++ lined up. Java and C# had their chance and it became clear that, while they simplify some aspects of development, they don't put us on the wholly new effort/reward curve the industry needs to be on, especially as relates to graphics and other forms of parallel processing, and multithreading. So the next transition could be very interesting.

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