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You can bash C++ all you want yet it is the one language that stands in the middle of high performance and systems development. Somehow all the "alternatives" f
by static_noise 12y ago
You can bash C++ all you want yet it is the one language that stands in the middle of high performance and systems development. Somehow all the "alternatives" fail in some part and all you're left with is C++. Rust may be getting there but it will take years until you will program your embedded realtime application in it.
- pjmlp 12y agoIt wasn't always like that though. C++ got into this position due to people like me, that were considered hipster back then, by going with that slow molass, full of portability issues trying to implement parts of C++ARM, instead of C. I did it, because sadly the vendors of the alternatives mentioned by Animats didn't managed to keep their languages up to what the OS vendors were putting on their SDKs. So stuck between C and C++, at least C++ was already a better alternative than writing plain unsafe C code.