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I didn't say C++ was a better language or more easily used. I said the specific problem called out about Java didn't occur to C++. I would go into detail abou

I didn't say C++ was a better language or more easily used. I said the specific problem called out about Java didn't occur to C++. I would go into detail about your other comments but it looks like you never actually dived into the language just looked at the complexity of its syntax and got annoyed.

tsimionescu 6y ago
I think Java is much closer to having one right way to do things. In C++, there are still code-bases that don't use std::string, and not (just) for backwards compatibility reasons. I wasn't commenting on the syntax, but the semantics. All of my examples are cases where there are legitimate choices to be made, with different trade-offs,which themselves depend on other choices. I admit that I have very little professional experience with C++, but I have some hobby esoterism, and I have read quite a bit about the language. It is very expressive and can be quite marvelously simple and powerful, but that comes at a very high cognitive cost while working with it. This is especially true when you have a piece of code that contains a bug - that is the time when you need to think about all of the semantics of the code, even the ones you would normally ignore, because you already know someone did something wrong, so now you can't rely on how things are supposed to be.