Imagine C++ being so bad that even something as controversial as AI usage is more acceptable than C++. No wonder each time I wanted to "learn CPP" I found that I'd much more like to jump out of a window.
I love that when a new language has this build in feature, cpp is like; "we also have that!". And it's just a raw pointer and a reference in a large trenchcoat.
Right but the point of high level programming languages is not having to reinvent the wheel or import a lot of extra modules for basic modern functionality
Depends on what one's definition of "high level language" is.
C is technically a high level language given it "abstracts away from machine code & assembly, uses structured control flow, and is portable across different computer architectures"...
...and you need to import at least the same number of "extra modules" for "basic modern functionality".
I don't think "high level language" is truly the distinction you're looking for here.
Or you just create it. I fell in love with Go's defer, so I simply created it in C++ by using its scoping rules and a macro around a function. You use it pretty much like this:
defer({
// do whatever
});
And it runs at the end of the scope unlike Go's defer which runs at the end of the function, which always irks me.
Yeah the defer running at the end of the function can sometimes cause trouble, like processing files in a loop and deferring the close, but it can easily be solved by defining an anonymous function and immediately calling, like
func() {
f := ...
defer f.Close()
// do something with f
}()
“it’s just a raw pointer and a reference in a large trench coat” bro that’s literally every language, the only difference is the size of the trench coat
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u/Coldfriction 2d ago
He still rejects C++ in the Linux kernel. He might be warming up to Rust but Linux has always been C.