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No, it's C :) And for me that's not even a hot take anymore, I switched back to C (specifically C99 and later) around 2017 after nearly 20 years of C++ as my ma

No, it's C :) And for me that's not even a hot take anymore, I switched back to C (specifically C99 and later) around 2017 after nearly 20 years of C++ as my main language, and I don't miss C++ the slightest. The hardest part was unlearning some bad C++ habits. The other 'behaviour change' for me was to open my mind to more programming languages. E.g. instead of trying to solve every problem with C++ I now pick a language that better matches the problem I want to solve (e.g. on one end of my language toolbox is C, on the other extreme end is Typescript, and somewhere in the middle are Zig, on Mac of course the occasional ObjC (not a fan of Swift tbh), and yes, sometimes even still modern C++ - in the end, the choice of language is mostly driven by the dependencies you need to use).

lelanthran 2mo ago
> No, it's C :) And for me that's not even a hot take anymore, For me, I switched away from C++ in 2008 or thereabouts. For anything that needs a higher level of abstraction than C, I'll use Lisp, Python, Java, C#[1], etc. You might enjoy (shameless plug to my own blog): https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html ============================= [1] Although, C# has lately gone the way of becoming incomprehensible syntax-wise. I've seen this happen with C++ in the past, so not so sure I'll even use C# again.