Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
by ncmncm on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:29PM
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You would be very pleasantly surprised at how programming in C+ is, today, vs. pre-C++11. With C++20, the language has got even nicer to use.
Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
by throwaway894345 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:48AM
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I remember really enjoying C++ circa 2012, but I really hated scripting my own build tooling via CMake or manually wrangling dependencies. This was the stuff that pushed me out of C++. Fortunately, Go had just hit 1.0 and it fixed many of the problems out of the gate, and I didn’t really need the performance that C++ offered.
Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
by ncmncm on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:24AM
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Even CMake has got less annoying.
Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
by throwaway894345 on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:23PM
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It had nowhere to go but up! (: Jokes aside, I’m glad to hear it.
I liked C++ in some ways, but as a whole, I think, C++ didn't reduce -- and may have increased -- the complexity of our software compared to the complexity of an equivalent C implementation. (I'm talking about the complexity of the software itself, not the complexities of the tasks it was doing.) The distribution of the complexity in the code would just have been different between the two implementations. IMHO.
So I mostly stick with C or other non-C++ languages now. Of course, C++ has expanded and changed greatly since then.