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C++ takes decades to master (programming.dev)
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[–] 121 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I have decades of C++ experience. I have never met any C++ developer who hasn't shot himself in the foot regularly with this damn language.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    But it's the funniest language IMO, you can do frigging anything with it.

    Which is why it causes problems of course.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago* (9 children)

    I need to find the nut meme about programming languages again

    Edit: Well this meme at least gets the gist of it

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Ooh been there done that, but with opengl, lol memories...

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Ooh been there done that, but with assembly language and direct register and video memory access, lol ancient memories...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Aah!

    Remember direct mode/protected mode? Mode 13? That 64k color buffer, aah memories :-)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You get a matrix, and you get a matrix. Everything gets a matrix. That's my main memory from OpenGL.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Worldmatrix, objectmatrix, movematrix, ... !

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Most C++ devs blame themselves and not the language though. So it still gets used a lot.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    And I fucking love it

    I hate java with a passion, C# was fun (but at that time only available through the .Net nightmare) and I grew up with (Turbo ;⁠-⁠)) Pascal and C

    So, I'm feeling rather comfortable and at home with C++

    I'd like to do a bigger project in Rust once at least, but with my current project already the compile times are between 20/25 to 45mins (depends, if you have the build server available or if you need to make up with the IPC).
    so, I guess, those iterations would become even longer with Rust

    But I'm also having the advantage, that my applications are running very, very isolated. So I don't really need to take care about exposure and attacks.

    Still... Finding a memory leak or some shared memory fuck up is everything but fun...

    Especially as most of the logic runs in kernel space and debugging possibilities are mostly reduced to traces/log files

    Still, I love it
    Maybe it's because of the thrill ;⁠-⁠)

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like the same stockholm syndrome I have for Arch.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Arch is great in my opinion

    I'm not sure, if it was just my young age/experience with Debian, but now with Arch I could always save a system. With apt I sometimes preferred a complete re-install.

    I actually really like Arch(& Arch based systems).

    If that is the public opinion with C++ and Arch, I'll need to re-evaluate my masochistic tendencies, it seems

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