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What year is it, 1998? Am I going crazy? I think you're making some extraordinary claims. I'd love to see some receipts. :-)
by simonask 1y ago
What year is it, 1998? Am I going crazy?
I think you're making some extraordinary claims. I'd love to see some receipts. :-)
- uecker 1y agoWhat specific claim do you think is extraordinary: That embedded programmers still often use C, that compilation times for C++ are often very long, that the languages is less stable than C, or that code produced by C++ can be worse?
- simonask 1y agoEspecially the last claim seems (that code generation for C++ is worse). It's the same compiler backend in all major compilers. Do you have any examples?
- throw-qqqqq 1y agoPurely guessing, but the "unstable tooling" could perhaps refer to the fact that C++ as a language has evolved a lot. I have had trouble compiling older C++ code bases with newer compilers, even when specifying C++98 as source standard. I gave up trying to get Scott McPeak's Elkhound C++ parser to compile, last I had to attempt it. C is a bit more forgiving on that topic (it hasn't changed as much, for better or worse).