Re:Duetto: a C++ compiler for the Web going beyond Emscripte...
by vidarh on Friday November 01, 2013 @09:48PM
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> As for the reason why non-C++ programmers don't like C++, perhaps you are in a better position to say.
As an ex-C++ programmer who did in fact do a large-scale web application deployment in C++ back in '99, and who used to do template meta-programming for fun:
It's too verbose.
C++11 does go some way to alleviate that, and might slow the number of people leaving C++, but it's unlikely to bring many people back, as the performance difference matters less and less, and the performance of language implementations for the languages people have jumped ship for (Ruby in my case) keeps getting better, narrowing the gap (and we already decided we could tolerate the much larger performance gaps of the past when we left in the first place).
As an ex-C++ programmer who did in fact do a large-scale web application deployment in C++ back in '99, and who used to do template meta-programming for fun:
It's too verbose.
C++11 does go some way to alleviate that, and might slow the number of people leaving C++, but it's unlikely to bring many people back, as the performance difference matters less and less, and the performance of language implementations for the languages people have jumped ship for (Ruby in my case) keeps getting better, narrowing the gap (and we already decided we could tolerate the much larger performance gaps of the past when we left in the first place).