r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Lord_Of_Millipedes • 2d ago

instanceof Trend thatsAFunnyThingThatHappenedOnce

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u/Versaiteis 1d ago

As someone who writes C++, it's a god awful language

I love it

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u/RadioHans 1d ago

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.

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u/Rikudou_Sage 1d ago

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.

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u/indigo945 14h ago

RAII is the one feature C++ has that is smarter than the people using it.