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Maybe they don't bother. PSU is still teaching C++98.

• maxlybbert 10y ago
  That was the thing: starting with C++98, I was able to pick up C++11. But starting from scratch? I'm not sure.
  • izacus 10y ago
    We have a rather lagerish codebase of C++11/14 and we manage to get people coming from other languages (Java / ObjC) to start working with it just fine. Modern C++ is pretty decent and readable (excluding some quirks of STL naming). Of course good code reviews and testing is a must to help people to get up to speed and stop shooting themselves in the foot :)
  • cmrdporcupine 10y ago
    Wow I feel the opposite. Because C++98 and earlier were so deficient in a lot of ways, people who got clever with it often ended up down a rabbit hole of template metaprogramming, boost:: bloat, custom classes for callback stuff, custom classes for reference counting or other smart pointers, etc. etc. Unlearning all that took me some time. In my 5 years at Google, I've watched many developers start from scratch on our subset of modern C++. There doesn't seem to be a huge challenge with it.
    • acqq 10y ago
      Is the subset of boost in Google still the same as the public one? https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html It it is, I consider Google very lucky to have these who decided not to allow everything.