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I don't think C++ ever really had a bad rap except among ideologues and evangelists of other languages. In my experience, people like this are very rare in the

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• mcqueenjordan 6y ago
  Your experience is highly incongruent with mine. I work with a lot of Rustaceans, and while they're often able to articulate why they prefer Rust over C++ for many applications, many of them would probably be reaching for C++ if not for Rust, and certainly don't spend time hating on the language. Speaking personally as a Rust fanatic, C++ is still my 3rd favorite language. (Out of a large N.) I guess my point is, this is a weird (and IMO, flat-out wrong) dig at the Rust community.
• mhh__ 6y ago
  Equally, a lot of people just don't know any different. How would you know C++ isn't optimal if you've never tried or thought about anything else. That and the sunk-cost of learning C++ is large.
  • Darvon 6y ago
    You can't get a degree without being exposed to a number of lecturer's language-of-choice. I'd be shocked to find someone who had only used c++
    • mhh__ 6y ago
      Lecturers are often fairly poor programmers, which is sort of within the point I was making. You might learn Java and C++ but you'll probably be writing one in the other no matter what you do first. I.e. my current lecturer in C programming seemed to imply we were going to be learning about object oriented programming in plain C (specifically inheritance), which does not bode well if he didn't misspeek