mikeloomis

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   by mikeloomis 8y ago

   I learned c++ fresh two years ago. While I enjoyed learning python, I had the vomitous reaction to rust, not c++. In fact, I find modern c++ to be quite similar to python for many problems.
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   by mikeloomis 8y ago

   Its very easy and rapidly becoming even easier to write modern c++ code that doesn't have dangling pointers/refs. The built in static analysis that Rust relies on to make its memory safety guarantees is no longer a real advantage.
3. 3.▲
   by mikeloomis 8y ago

   It'll be after 20 for sure, we're still waiting for the executor TS for async networking to be able to come in.
4. 4.▲
   by mikeloomis 8y ago

   A c++20 range is just a bounded container. instead of having to write, `(container.begin(), container.end())` for any function that uses iterators to bound itself, you just write `(container)` and it knows its a range. The range function in