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[–] 157 points 1 year ago (12 children)

C++ gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you did not know rope could do that you should have read the manual.

It's like a chainsaw with all the bells and whistles but all the safety features removed. Sure you can chop wood with it really fast and probably stone too if you #include diamondteeth library, you can even hammer in nails if you #include hammer. But you are alone responsible for your safety and it's probably not the best tool for any given job.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    The incredible thing about this chainsaw is that no two people use it the same way. You think you knew most things about the chainsaw until you see someone else use it. They use a completely different technique, holding it in a way you never considered a possibility, and use buttons you didn’t know were even there - let alone what they are for. They’re equally mystified in terror when they see you use the chainsaw.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You should also really be using the latest chainsaw model with new safety features, but your workplace swears by the gas guzzling piece of shit from 1996

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The new safety features all break down under stress and make the tool as safe as the 1996 piece as soon as you put them in a dangerous environment.

    Also, both the new and the 1996 pieces have hidden explosives that were placed there by the new tooling used to build them. Nobody will tell you where they are, you should know that already. Don't hit them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Like a real powertool, if you unscrew the safety features because you feel they're getting in your way, they no longer provide safety. Having the guard from a chainsaw in your back pocket does nothing to protect you from the chainsaw you're holding.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I loved when my IDE would warn me that my code wasn't deterministic unless I used c++11 or newer compilers because previous versions technically didn't define how it should work, so every compiler handled it differently.

    And all the times I had to specify C++11 because it had features I needed, and suddenly it was a huge headache because the testing pipeline wasn't REALLY compatible, it just said it was, and then handed it off to manual review. Something I didn't know until 6 months after I started using it...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No programming language in the world can keep you from shooting yourself in the foot.

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