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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      71 year 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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        -11 year ago

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

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