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Fair enough. But the number of resource-constrained systems is pretty low these times. A phone, watch, dishwasher or xero machine are no longer resource-constra
by pkolaczk 12y ago
Fair enough. But the number of resource-constrained systems is pretty low these times. A phone, watch, dishwasher or xero machine are no longer resource-constrained. Also, C++ is not really shining IMHO in very-constrained environments - at least not "modern C++" dialect. Template-heavy libraries can blow up code-sizes pretty severely and dynamic memory allocation happening behind-the-scenes in the standard library is not free either. So for those very constrained systems, pure C or a very tiny subset of C++, i.e. C with classes, no exceptions, no templates, might be often a better choice.
- tfinniga 12y agoYeah, I realize my view on this is a bit skewed. A lot of the examples people give where C++ is still justified are things that I have done in my career - image processing, video editing, rendering software, CAD software, solving large sparse matrix systems, etc. On the other hand, there is a reason why native apps are popular on the iPhone. Likewise, some games are programmed in high-level languages, but the performance advantage of C++ keeps it dominant in games. Between games and mobile devices, I'd say C++ isn't going anywhere any time soon. C++ can indeed be very bloated, like you say. On the other hand templates do allow for code reuse without the function call overhead.. I believe std::sort is faster than qsort. For me, if there was another language that was as well supported as C++ but allowed higher-level structures and programming methods, I'd be very much in favor of it. For now it looks like new versions of C++ are the closest there is. Nobody really likes C++ for its elegance, it's just a very practical choice.