Problems with C++ exceptions

Re:Problems with C++ exceptions by ranger_danger on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:52AM (#45897870)

I'm the opposite. I like C++ but only until C++11. From that point onward, the rules got WAY more complicated, and there's only so much I can/want to hold in my brain at once, I just prefer simpler rules I guess.

Occasionally I do like to use auto or lambdas from C++11 but even then I have to remember more rules for initialization because braces were introduced.

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Re:Problems with C++ exceptions by CoastalCoder on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:14AM (#45898420)

This is true of me as well. I started with C++ in 1991, and I generally knew the language spec quite well (as far as users go) up through C++11.

But now the language packs so much complexity that I can't be sure I understand all of the code I'm looking at.

My usual quality standard for production code is that it doesn't just need to be correct, it needs to be obviously correct. So that's a problem.

Doubly so when the other programmers on the team aren't C++ geeks.

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