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What's wrong with using C++ in 2009?

• prodigal_erik 17y ago
  It gives up all possible safety for performance gains that haven't mattered on the desktop for years. "volatile" is not enough of a memory model to write portable threaded code for I/O bound multicore machines. And it's missing an awful lot of modern conveniences that are painful or unreliable without language support: AOP, closures, currying, invariants, reflection, serialization, remoting, extensible syntax.
  • gaius 17y ago
    Echoing the commenter above, people writing C++ in 2009 are laughing all the way to the bank.
    • HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago
      I don't know about laughing all the way to the bank, but I would probably have more difficulty writing machinery control code in anything other than C++