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Seeing badly formatted code snippets without color highlighting in article called "21st Century C++" somehow resonates with my opinion on how hard to write and
by zie1ony 2y ago
Seeing badly formatted code snippets without color highlighting in article called "21st Century C++" somehow resonates with my opinion on how hard to write and to ready C++ still is after working with other laguages.
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoThis honestly looks like C++ being feature-juryrigged to a degree that it doesn't even look like what C++ is: a c-derived low level language. Everything is unobvious magic. Sure, you stick to a very restricted set of API usages and patterns, and all the magic allocation/deallocation happens out of sight. But does that make it easier to debug? Better to code it? This simply looks like C++ trying not to look like C++: like a completely different language, but one that was not built from the ground up to be that language, rather a bunch of shell games to make it look like another language as an illusion.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoYeah, I didn't have a problem keeping my shit straight in C++ in the '90s. The kitchen-sink approach since then hasn't been worth keeping up with. The fact that we're still dealing with header files means that the language stewards' priorities are not in line with practical concerns.