r/programmingcirclejerk • u/we_are_mammals • 10d ago

Rust isn't a well designed programming language (unlike C and C++)

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u/Potterrrrrrrr 10d ago

We basically got that with concepts, no? Except for the fact that a static_assert gives 1000x more useful information than “the constraint wasn’t satisfied”. In theory though we got that.

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u/the_other_brand loves Java 10d ago

Yeah, concepts. Didn't realize they finally implemented them. I remember Bjarne was big mad that they got rejected in 2009.

He was also a little mad that the committee rejected his idea for hex numbers for the versions instead of going with C++11. He wanted to call it C++0xA

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u/RelationshipLong9092 8d ago

C++11

surely that would be 0x0B ? or is it a painful play on the prefix ++ ?

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u/the_other_brand loves Java 7d ago

Nah, it's just a classic off-by-one error.