Re:In Defense of C++
by palata on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:00AM
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> require learning and teaching magic incantations at the command line
That's exactly my point: if you think that calling `cmake --build build` is "magic", then maybe you don't have the right profile to use C++ in the first place, because you will have to learn some harder concepts there (like... pointers).
To be honest, I find it hard to understand how a software developer can write code and still consider that command line instructions are "magic incantations". To me it's like saying that calling a function like `println("Some text, {}, {}", some_parameter, some_other_parameter)` is a "magic incantation". Calling a function with parameters counts as "the basics" to me.
That's exactly my point: if you think that calling `cmake --build build` is "magic", then maybe you don't have the right profile to use C++ in the first place, because you will have to learn some harder concepts there (like... pointers).
To be honest, I find it hard to understand how a software developer can write code and still consider that command line instructions are "magic incantations". To me it's like saying that calling a function like `println("Some text, {}, {}", some_parameter, some_other_parameter)` is a "magic incantation". Calling a function with parameters counts as "the basics" to me.