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True: not my area of expertise as I have only written ~100,000 lines of C++ -- and that that is insufficient for C++ to be an area of expertise is itself very r

• pclmulqdq 4y ago
  It's true, and it is a big problem with C++. I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic here, but if those 100,000 lines are not heavily back-weighted towards 2014 and later, that amount of code probably doesn't make you a C++ expert unless you were doing things like writing parts of boost (or another template library) or you happened to decide to read a few hundred pages of the spec recently. The language-change whiplash that people accuse Rust of happens to C++ folks who leave the language for several years, since "idiomatic" C++ has changed substantially over the last 20 years. EDIT - Just to clarify, there are SO MANY different ways to do things in C++ that the way to really learn C++ is by reading (both good code and the spec), not by writing. It's very easy to write a ton of code and not actually do it in the fastest/best/most idiomatic way. This is complicated by the fact that a ton of C++ examples out there are wrong. It's really an electrical engineer's language at this point - read all the datasheets if you want to avoid getting shot in the foot (and still get shot in the foot anyway).