C++ creator rebuts White House warning

Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning by gigel82 on Monday March 18, 2024 @11:22PM (#39752637)

I didn't say people are too stupid. On the contrary, we onboard fresh grads onto our large C++ code base every once in a while and they all seem to grasp the concepts just fine.

I'm wondering if most folks throwing shade at C++ had used pre-C++11 toolsets and just have bad memories of the experience.

FWIW, I find modern C++ genuinely great to read / easy to parse by humans (same for similar languages like C#, Java, JavaScript/Typescript) whereas reading Rust (in particular function definitions) is painful.

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Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning by dralley on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:34AM (#39752975)

IME this is mostly a familiarity problem not an actual syntax problem.

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Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning by gigel82 on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:08AM (#39756510)

No, I mean humans in general, not software developers. Seriously, show a non-developer a printout of some average modern C++ code and some average rust code and see which one they think is easier to read and more visually pleasing.

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Re:C++ creator rebuts White House warning by dralley on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @01:40PM (#39758309)

Average Rust code uses a fair number of lambdas, you won't convince me that C++ has a readable / ergonomic syntax for lambdas.

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