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It's funny how two of the most common bandwagon posts you can see on HN and other programming venues is: * C++ is a terrible bloated language that no one shoul
by creato 6y ago
It's funny how two of the most common bandwagon posts you can see on HN and other programming venues is:
* C++ is a terrible bloated language that no one should use.
* The power of modern computers is wasted on lazy software engineers writing software with too many layers of abstraction.
- david2ndaccount 6y agoTo many, these statements are saying the same thing. Your average C++ codebase is a bloated mess with too many layers of abstraction.
- mzsmyk 6y agoYou don't need to use a "terribly bloated language" to write efficient software.
- mehrdadn 6y agoI mean, C++ has lots of compile-time abstractions, but unlike with other languages, it can collapse a lot of them during compilation via its inlining and other optimizations. You don't get that with a language like Python...
- adwn 6y agoI don't see a contradiction between these two statements. There are more languages than C++ and Python. You could use Rust, or some of the languages targeting the JVM or the CLI.