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He seems to be in denial. I watched Stroustrup's CppCon 2023 talk about safety[0] a few months back. He spends about an hour talking about how important safety
by cedws 3y ago
He seems to be in denial. I watched Stroustrup's CppCon 2023 talk about safety[0] a few months back. He spends about an hour talking about how important safety is and all the new things C++ offers to write safe code. Why did he suddenly start caring about safety now?
C++ is like a mad hatter's bad acid trip and somehow people are convinced it's still a great language to use in 2024.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8UvQKvOSSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8UvQKvOSSw
- janice1999 3y agoIs that the talk where Stroustrup avoids even saying the word Rust for the entire talk even though the talk is 100% a reaction to Rust? On the other hand Herb Sutter recently wrote an interesting and grounded article on his views of Safety. While I don't agree 100% with him, at least he acknowledges the position C++ is in. Edit: The article: https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/ https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/
- beached_whale 3y agoHe isn’t talking about memory safety and keeps avoiding it.
- nox101 3y agoThe obvious answer would seem to be he's afraid of the (slow) death of C++ which is his legacy/child. No one wants to see their work thrown on the scrap pile of history.
- throwaway2202 3y agoI’m going off old memory here, but I happened to have his C++ book in late 90s. I read that before I learn C. In intro he claimed strongly no need to learn C. Just learn C++. I was young and just followed his wisdom. Obviously there’s zero replacement for learning C before C++. I can at best say I lost a lot of time confused about basic stuff. Until I gave up, ignored him and learnt C like I should have. I was in school, I did not expect to come across faith based software development. That’s a different course.