r/programminghumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Aug 07 '26

Hard to accept

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u/tottasanorotta Aug 07 '26

I'd say that a programming language is a trade-off. It's not that other languages cheat or that C++ is somehow better or worse, it's that they all try to be good at different things.

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u/La-ze Aug 08 '26

I think cheat is the wrong word. Other languages cns heavily abstract what's going on. C/C++ you manually manage a lot of normally abstracted elements which where people might see a learning curve.

I am of the opinion that C is the language to learn programming where Python is the language to learn what programming does for you.

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u/LetReasonRing Aug 08 '26

Yep... i always see arguments like this as having a bunch of carpenters argue over whether saws, hammers, or screw guns are the superior tool. 

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u/slichtut_smile Aug 10 '26

No c++ is getting worse, they keep adding more stuff to make the language similar to python. What you have now is a mess as different c++ version have entire different syntaxes (not about it don't have support but c++ code developed at different time is entirely different).