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> Firstly, half of the time the guy bitches about flaws with the compiler, and not the languages (Page 0 to 6). That's pretty unfair. It's the language's compl
by Raphael_Amiard 15y ago
> Firstly, half of the time the guy bitches about flaws with the compiler, and not the languages (Page 0 to 6).
That's pretty unfair. It's the language's complexity that makes the compiler task almost impossible. Before clang came around, most C++ compilers had really shitty error messages, gcc, icc, and microsoft's indiscriminately.
- thedigitalengel 15y agoWhat I meant was that unless you're writing a C++ compiler, these reasons should not longer bother you. Even if you are, you're free to leverage off clang's lexer and parser. Otherwise it is a lot like saying Java is bad because it is hard to write a good VM.