C++ is pretty sweet.
It definitely has its issues - don’t get me wrong, but it’s pretty sweet.
Correction: modern C++ is pretty sweet.
Chances are if you’re working on C++ in a professional setting it’s not modern C++ :(
Meh? I write pretty much exclusively in C and honestly I still like C++ better, and wouldn’t mind switching to Rust either
I started with c++ so does c really has advantages over c++ ?
And yeah same, Rust seems to be pretty cool too, at some point I’m gonna try it…
I started with C++ too, and then ended up finding a job writing firmware pretty much all in C. There really hasn’t been anything we’ve run into that’s made us consider switching to C++; being able to (and needing to) have complete control over your memory means you can do some pretty fancy stuff with the tiny amounts of memory on our ASICs.
We’ve been eyeballing switching to rust a little bit, but really only for other applications; the root of our main code base is over 25 years old at this point and a rewrite would take a Herculean effort.
Yeah, learning Rust has given me greater appreciation for C/C++. Like, the selling feature of all three is that they don’t use a runtime, which means you’re not locked into that ecosystem. You can create libraries with them, that can be used from virtually any other language.
It’s also easy to say that the performance of Java, Python et al is fine, but having a larger application start up in 1 rather than 20 seconds is still always appreciated.
Like, the selling feature of all three is that they don’t use a runtime
Microsoft:
As a Rustacean, I’d rather use C than C++ for a small project.
Why C ‘hackers’? Why not just regular C users?
To my knowledge, it’s a name that came out of the free software / GNU movement. So, “hackers” as in clever problem solvers, not those that break into insecure systems.
Which should be known as a “cracker”, but yeah mainstream media fucked the word “hacker” to mean something it doesn’t.
Was thinking of putting “UNIX Hackers” but I thought that might have been too obscure. Referencing people like Linus Torvalds’, Theo de Raadt’s, and cat-v’s opinions on C++.
C and C++ are way worse than mid. Had rust been invented at the same time, C and C++ would’ve disappeared in obscurity and only been taught at university to explain pointers.
They are nearly on the same level of bilge as COBOL.
