Re:Two Weeks of Rust
by pjmlp on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:21PM
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Which is quite interesting for someone like me.
Around 1994 C++ seemed the path forward from Turbo Pascal, given that I favoured type safety, C was a meh when compared with Turbo Pascal, but Turbo Pascal was a PC only thing.
Back in those days C++ was regarded like Rust and other C++ wannabe replacements are nowadays.
We were the hipster of the 90's, with C devs targeting home systems slowly accepting that not all functions needed to be inline Assembly wrappers.
So it is interesting for a grey beard like me to see C++ being described just like C and Pascal vs C++ compilers were back in the mid-90's.
Nowadays my area of work is dominated by JVM, .NET and the native languages of mobile OSes.
I wish Bjarne et al succeed pushing "C++ Core Guidelines" forward, but they will not change the mentality of those that program C with C++ compiler, which is what I usually see at the typical corporations.
Around 1994 C++ seemed the path forward from Turbo Pascal, given that I favoured type safety, C was a meh when compared with Turbo Pascal, but Turbo Pascal was a PC only thing.
Back in those days C++ was regarded like Rust and other C++ wannabe replacements are nowadays.
We were the hipster of the 90's, with C devs targeting home systems slowly accepting that not all functions needed to be inline Assembly wrappers.
So it is interesting for a grey beard like me to see C++ being described just like C and Pascal vs C++ compilers were back in the mid-90's.
Nowadays my area of work is dominated by JVM, .NET and the native languages of mobile OSes.
I wish Bjarne et al succeed pushing "C++ Core Guidelines" forward, but they will not change the mentality of those that program C with C++ compiler, which is what I usually see at the typical corporations.