CppCon 2018: Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners [video]

Re:CppCon 2018: Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners [video] by Yoric on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:53PM (#18095431)

While I agree that C++ has improved a lot, and while all these extensions to the standard library can, when used carefully, considerably increase readability... well, there remains the fact that they still need to be used with extreme care.

See https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/1038 for an example of what I'm talking about.

So, readability increases, but the mental load of making sure that stuff doesn't break in subtle and non-euclidian ways keeps increasing, at least when refactoring existing codebases.

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Re:CppCon 2018: Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners [video] by fsloth on Saturday September 29, 2018 @03:05AM (#18099087)

Yeah, memory handling is still challenging to handle correctly - in the sense it need forethought and constantly remembering what one can and can't do (list iterators good long term references, vector iterators bad long term references, etc). string_view is a good example of a situation where garbage collector would save a lot of headache.

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