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This is one of major faults with C++; the simpler, more elegant syntax is unsafe-by-default due to backwards compatibility.
by hoseja 5y ago
This is one of major faults with C++; the simpler, more elegant syntax is unsafe-by-default due to backwards compatibility.
- pjmlp 5y agoTrue, however how else would Bjarne have sold C++ to C folks, just dive into the Usenet archives to see the flame wars of the time and people counting CPU cycles per language feature. The same can be told about TypeScript, no matter how good its type system is, it will never prevent JavaScript gotchas, for similar reasons.