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I suspect most developers do not know C.

• downrightmike 11mo ago
  C is fine C++ is where they jumped the shark
  • bnolsen 11mo ago
    C++ explored a lot of ideas that some modern languages borrowed. C++ just had to haul along all the cruft it inherited and built up.
  • jeltz 11mo ago
    No, C is not fine. It is a really bad language that I unfortunately have to code professionally.
  • MyOutfitIsVague 11mo ago
    C++ is far better than C in very many ways. It's also far worse than C in very many other ways. Given a choice between the two, I'd still choose C++ every day just for RAII. There's only so much that we can blame programmers for memory leaks, use-after-free, buffer overflows, and other things that are still common in new C code. At some point, it is the language itself that is unsuitable and insufficient.
  • cowsandmilk 11mo ago
    I’m not sure what that has to do with the comment you’re replying to…
  • pjmlp 11mo ago
    Until WG14 ackwnowledges the safety holes in C, isn't fine at all, it should be nuked.
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