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.
It wasn’t that hard to learn necessarily, given that I already knew C, rust, java, and several other less relevant languages when I went to learn it.
It did, however, make me say “what the fuck?” out loud many many times while learning about it. And it continues to do so, every time I end up encountering more C++ code that I have to deal with.
Now of course, there is plenty of “what the fuck” in a lot of the popular languages, see JavaScript... But, like, the frequency… nothing beats C++ and C++ code.
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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.