Re:Duetto: a C++ compiler for the Web going beyond Emscripte...
by angersock on Thursday October 31, 2013 @12:28PM
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I love C++ to death--it gives me a level of control I need to get at very small fiddly bits when I need to, and also to abstract away great swathes of things when I want to.
That said, I very much agree with your point--the middle ground between those two modes is cluttered and there lies madness.
The problem with the new features of C++11/14/42 is that they are never going to remove the existing jank of the language; these folks don't seem to understand--or want to understand--that there is never going to be a magical fucking tabula rasa onto which they'll scrawl their code, unless they want to rewrite all the things from scratch (which may actually be a good idea).
That being the case, they're going to get run circles around by people who either stick to existing jank and libraries or use a language with a better set of batteries and more flexibility (Ruby, Python, etc.).
The power and speed of C++ is not worth the difficulty, usually, of finding people who can use it properly.
That said, I very much agree with your point--the middle ground between those two modes is cluttered and there lies madness.
The problem with the new features of C++11/14/42 is that they are never going to remove the existing jank of the language; these folks don't seem to understand--or want to understand--that there is never going to be a magical fucking tabula rasa onto which they'll scrawl their code, unless they want to rewrite all the things from scratch (which may actually be a good idea).
That being the case, they're going to get run circles around by people who either stick to existing jank and libraries or use a language with a better set of batteries and more flexibility (Ruby, Python, etc.).
The power and speed of C++ is not worth the difficulty, usually, of finding people who can use it properly.