If a language helps a developer create a solution, it is fundamentally not a cancer.
Re:Will Carbon Replace C++?
by TheRealPomax on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:34AM
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A profoundly idiotic statement, but on-brand for that manifesto.
Re:Will Carbon Replace C++?
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:36AM
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> As "Unix haters handbook" says
As they compile their C code using a compiler written in C++. (GCC and Clang are both written in C++).
To be fair, that wasn't true when the Unix haters handbook was written, almost 30 years ago.
Nonetheless it was true that C++, C and UNIX share the same birthplace.
I love how it ignores that C++ was developed on the same place, even on the same corridor as C and UNIX devs used to work.
And yet ... the C developers were never impressed by C++, and (for instance) Plan9 ended using a differently enhanced version of C, and never (I think?) had a C++ compiler.
The same developers that came up with Limbo and Go, somehow there is a common trend on how they see language design and the alternatives.
Re:Will Carbon Replace C++?
by jokethrowaway on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:06AM
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YMMV but Go is one of the most divisive tech out there for me.
I like C++ and Rust. If I meet a dev who likes Go, I can guarantee we won't agree on much.
As "Unix haters handbook" says: C++ is to C, what lung cancer is to lung.