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I am a practical man and language for me is just a tool. I do not dwell on C++ being too complex (which it is when you take it as a whole). All I care is - does

by FpUser 5y ago

I am a practical man and language for me is just a tool. I do not dwell on C++ being too complex (which it is when you take it as a whole). All I care is - does it have enough features that I can be effective in creating application. C++ definitely fits the criteria for me. I've heard horror stories where each member of a team uses it's own subset but practically for many years of dealing with C++ I do not feel I ever had problems when I had to work with other programmers. Programming general use libraries - sure. It is often enough hard to read black magic but I'll let people that are actually doing it worry about the problem. It does not have to propagate to application level programming.

CodeGlitch 5y ago
> I've heard horror stories where each member of a team uses it's own subset but practically for many years of dealing with C++ I do not feel I ever had problems when I had to work with other programmers. I feel the technical lead should be catching these problems during code reviews, and establishing best practices, etc. Also this problem exists in other languages, perhaps elevated slightly in C++, but until rust came along it was 1 of 2 choices you had for certain problems (C being the other obvs.). Speaking of rust I thing the jury is still out on whether it can catch up with C++ in terms of popularity.