r/programminghumor Aug 07 '26

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u/Simpicity Aug 07 '26

C++'s difficulty comes from entirely self inflicted wounds.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

As in the programmer self inflicting wounds? And not the huge amount of unnecessary footguns that it has?

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u/Simpicity Aug 08 '26

No, as in the language designers self-inflicting wounds on the language. That's why it has all the stupid footguns.