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C++ is really a language that you want to specialize in and cultivate years of deep expertise with, rather than having it as one tool in your belt like you can
by TillE 3y ago
C++ is really a language that you want to specialize in and cultivate years of deep expertise with, rather than having it as one tool in your belt like you can with other languages.
That's certainly a choice you can make, and modern C++ is generally a pretty good experience to work with. I would hope that there's not a ton of active C++ projects which are still mostly using the pre-2011 standard, but who knows.
- sgerenser 3y agoThis exactly. It’s a blessing and a curse, because I’d love to move to a “better” language like Rust or even Zig. But with 20+ years of C++ experience I feel like I’d be throwing away too much to avoid C++ completely. Also agreed that modern C++ is pretty decent. Lamenting that I’m back in a codebase that started before C++11 vs my previous job that was greenfield C++14/17.