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The argument originally made was "You can read front-to-cover books about every details of C++ semantics and it'll still be a PITA to work on real world project
by jodrellblank 2y ago
The argument originally made was "You can read front-to-cover books about every details of C++ semantics and it'll still be a PITA to work on real world projects"
Which is not disagreeing with you just because you are explaining/disputing the reason it was a PITA.
- jpc0 2y agoThat statment was qualified by: > While I'm far from a cmake/cpp expert, this is a non-issue with most modern languages: you just pip install, cargo add, npm install, go get etc. Which I also find fundamentally wrong because most real world projects have a C/C++ dependency which needs to be built and is built from one of those languages build systems by calling into cmake / autotools + make. Just because you called apt-get or any other way to pull dependencies doesn't remove the fact that they need to be built and likely involve a C compiler.