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> ... setting out to learn C++ in 2023 is a major career limiting factor. No it is not. > Let's be clear, learning C++ in 2023 is like migration to Russia/Ch
by warmwaffles 4y ago
> ... setting out to learn C++ in 2023 is a major career limiting factor.
No it is not.
> Let's be clear, learning C++ in 2023 is like migration to Russia/China/Cuba
No it is not.
> you give away all your reasonable freedoms & funs to submit yourself to the mercy of a close group of "elites" who try so damn hard to dictate your life & work.
No you do not. It is not a slavery operation.
Learning C/C++ now is a good foundation as to why things like Rust and Zig are popular. Understanding the underlying mechanics is good. To say it's a major career limiting factor is hyperbole at best.
- tw1984 4y agoPlease stop mixing C and C++ together. Learn C gets you to know all the underlying mechanisms. Learning C++ gives you nothing else but some overmarked concepts like OO.
- warmwaffles 4y agoI'm not mixing them. Both are good to have foundations for why things are the way they are. Completely bypassing them is asinine. There's a reason in computer science a computer organization class is still teaches about assembly instructions going through pipelines.
- tw1984 4y agono one is against C or assembly, they are direct models of how machine works, they provide native access to underlying stuff. the same can't be said for C++, e.g. its OO concept seemed to be cool back in the 90s, but after so many decades, at the core of a legacy language, it is now well known that OO is not the choice, modern languages no longer focus on OO for good reasons. I encourage everyone to learn C, if they have time, learning ASM is also a good investment. At the same time, I think C++ should be depreciated.
- asveikau 4y agoI see a lot of c++ influence in rust. Specifically smart pointers that track ownership, raii.