One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application in rust, and so can you

Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Saturday February 25, 2017 @06:46PM (#13734639)

By that way, in referring to C++, are you referring to modern C++ or C with classes? Whenever is see people criticizing C/C++, I suspect they are doing C with classes style programming and (rightfully) hating that.

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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by coldtea on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:11PM (#13735022)

>I suspect they are doing C with classes style programming and (rightfully) hating that.

Rightfully? People resort(ed) to "C with classes" to make C++ tolerable and/or reliable.

If anything, it's the opposite: when most people complain about C++ it's about C++ itself, the full language, and its whole baggage of features and their obscure interactions and intricacies. Not about using C++ as C with classes.

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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by flohofwoe on Sunday February 26, 2017 @05:56AM (#13736652)

Using C++ as "C with classes" with some carefully selected new features is an absolutely fine subset of the C++ language and IMHO the only way to circumvent the mess that C++ has become. The problems are the huge pile of cruft that has accumulated over the years in the std library, the boost-over-engineering approach, and the unfocused development of the language (instead of cutting the cruft down new standards add random new features on top of the existing mess). The current 'shiny new languages' will probably look the same in 30 years though.

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