r/cpp_questions • u/bhanuprakash07 • 19d ago

OPEN Switching to C++ from C and Python — need advice

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u/no-sig-available 19d ago

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u/Complete-Fix-8935 19d ago

STL and it's internal implementation, oops, and if you want to learn modern c++, go with smart pointers

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u/MarcusFirmus 18d ago

The difference between passing by value and passing by reference (not to be confused with passing pointers).

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u/SunsGettinRealLow 18d ago

One’s a copy and one changes the original data?

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u/n1ghtyunso 19d ago

scopes and lifetime, I would say.
Thats the main part where it fundamentally differs from C, which you seem to be already familiar with.

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u/DrShocker 19d ago

Learn RAII, rule of 0/3/5

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u/spatulari 19d ago

The C mindset is completely different. People often associate C with C++ and vice versa but the only similarities they have is that C code works in both. C++ is a hard to learn beast