Re:How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You
by stcredzero on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:59PM
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Except that's wrong. The new style is not "better" at all.
RAII is tons better than older memory management styles in C++.
The newer styles of C++ initialization are tons better than the older ones, which seem to inevitably result in a dozen ad-hoc mini-initialization frameworks.
Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables
That is indeed arbitrary and useless.
forcing brackets on new lines
Forcing brackets on new lines is useless. Mandating the use of brackets has been shown to be very useful for reducing bugs.
RAII is tons better than older memory management styles in C++.
The newer styles of C++ initialization are tons better than the older ones, which seem to inevitably result in a dozen ad-hoc mini-initialization frameworks.
Replacing CamelCase with underscore_variables
That is indeed arbitrary and useless.
forcing brackets on new lines
Forcing brackets on new lines is useless. Mandating the use of brackets has been shown to be very useful for reducing bugs.