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I showed up to the C++ rodeo right as C++98 was taking off, and got to work with Jaakko & Gaby & Bjarne (at TAMU) on what would be C++11 (C++0x). Man — those we

I showed up to the C++ rodeo right as C++98 was taking off, and got to work with Jaakko & Gaby & Bjarne (at TAMU) on what would be C++11 (C++0x). Man — those were great times. I still can't decide which craziness — reflection or coroutines — I detest worse in "modern" C++. In either case, I really feel like I'm channeling my inner/outer old-man-shakes-fist-at-clouds. On the other hand, I see languages like Nim, Zig, Rust, Swift, Go, ... and, I mean, seriously.

ranger_danger 1y ago
I wished Swift got more love, I feel like it takes the "most familiar" (to C++ devs) approach to improving things, as it keeps the syntax extremely similar to C++ but fixes a lot of the issues it has, and adds some very nice things too, like memory safety and named function parameters (which Objective-C had since forever).