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> There are no legitimate arguments for C. Bullshit. You're not helping your argument by denying the counter-argument's right to exist. > more people pick up
by the_biot 4y ago
> There are no legitimate arguments for C.
Bullshit. You're not helping your argument by denying the counter-argument's right to exist.
> more people pick up C++ for professional use each week than the total now employed coding Rust.
Do you have any facts to back up this thing you just pulled out of your ass?
> You can switch just about any C project to build with a C++ compiler in a day or two. Then you can modernize incrementally, starting with new code, and updating key subsystems according to what yields most benefit for new code.
That's if you want to do that; not everybody wants to switch to C++. I know you won't understand.
A wise man once told me, if you tell a group of programmers you're going to do a project in C++, half of them will just quietly acquiesce, and the other half will spontaneously vomit. You cannot underestimate how much C++ is despised.
- ehvatum 4y ago> A wise man once told me Sounds legit.
- ncmncm 4y agoWe all know some are irrationally, rabidly hostile to C++. The most hostile know least about it. But we need not try to accommodate them. Millions of working programmers use C++ successfully every day. Those using modern idioms have no greater trouble with memory safety than in other "memory-safe" languages. The unfortunate subset who treat it as "better C" for fear of learning anything new are nearing retirement. A good example of sensible use of modern C++ in kernel and essential utility code may be seen in the SerenityOS project.