A Farewell to FRP

Re:A Farewell to FRP by marcosdumay on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @09:33AM (#11675068)

Both languages have approximately the same problems for debugging. Explicit memory references are hard to follow, lack of overflowing protection requires a lot of extra caution to catch the errors, and failures lead to an unforgiving stop with at most a core dump. C++ is much better for statically catching errors, but templates and copy/move semantics make it even harder to debug.

And yes, I imagine C++11 is much better. Unfortunately, I didn't write anything big in C++ since then.

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Re:A Farewell to FRP by rubber_duck on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:09AM (#11676019)

You avoid explicit references in C++11 and use STL containers which check for overflow.

I agree that C++ can have the same issues but the frequency is not comparable because you don't drop to those unsafe parts if you don't have to.

So with C++14 I get that "if it compiles it runs" feeling comparable to say C#.

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