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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by kitd on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:29AM (#29228522)
But two, C++ invites pedantry. I heard endless discussions about "ooh, template meta-programming", "struct or class", "but is this idempotent", "you should be using move semantics", "why on earth is this a unique_ptr".

I wonder what the result would have been in eg. Go or Rust, where that level of conversation doesn't exist. True, others would have taken place instead, but at a higher level nearer the design, where they should have been happening anyway.

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