thePunisher

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by thePunisher 6y ago
C++ is safe if you know how to use it properly, but this does incur overhead and many people aren't willing to incur any overhead because they want the fastest raw speed available. So they usually mess around with C like constructs in
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Pascal was originally an application programming language, not a systems programming language. These days you can probably mix assembly within your Pascal code or access pointers directly with some custom language extensions, but these were
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I'm very nervous about using Qt since they announced they more or less want to get rid of the free edition due to less than expected income. And their commercial offerings are very pricey indeed ($6000 a year). I'd recommend users
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by thePunisher 6y ago
This blog is not an article but a rant full of half-truths and outright lies. The author doesn't realize that most C# developers have no knowledge of the history of both Pascal and C (I'm old enough to know) because they were born
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by thePunisher 6y ago
It's usually a trade-off since C++ may be more time consuming and therefore most costly to write. It's also a lot harder to get bug-free because of the manual memory management. Both Java and C# may be somewhat slower, but the mai
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by thePunisher 6y ago
There are quite a few areas in software where determinism is a must, such as games, real-time and systems software.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Both Java and C# are designed for memory-safety but not thread-safety; Rust is. Considering many of the software problems we face have some connection to thread-safety, Rust is the way to go.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Rewriting a browser is a memory-safe language (such as Rust) takes years if not decades. Case in point: Firefox. They've been rewriting parts of it in Rust for the last 6 years or so and they've only managed a little over 10%.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I would argue that most of the memory errors actually pertain to C programs, not C++ ones (providing they use proper encapsulation and libraries such as STL). C is syntactically C++ being a subset of C++ and I've seen many programs whi
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The biggest problem is we are using systems programming languages to develop applications. We need to use application programming languages to develop applications. C and C++ are systems programming languages, to be used for developing oper