On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift).

On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?

  • @nomadjoanne
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    Absolutely. The problem is, most programmers are mediocre. So sadly the protection of stupid people tends to take cultural precedence.

    • @FooBarrington
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      77 months ago

      Please show me a single “good” programmer who is working with C/C++ and hasn’t had a single memory bugs in a decade.

      • @nomadjoanne
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        -17 months ago

        Check out Eskil Steenberg. He’s mostly a game dev, but he has some really good talks.

        • @FooBarrington
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          7 months ago

          And you know with 100% certainty he hasn’t had a single memory bug in his last decade of developing?

          • @nomadjoanne
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            17 months ago

            He has written his own libraries and programs to ensure these things don’t happen.

            What you people need to understand is that these problems have been solved before Rust. They just weren’t baked into the language. And so people made mistakes.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvkn9Xz-xks

            I’m not saying Rust is not always the better choice. Of course not. I’m just oh-so-weary of this rewrite-the-world zealotry a lot of people have about it.