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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

C++98 mostly coded in C style, is boring & hard.

C++17 written using best practices in safety learned in the last decades, is exciting and simple.

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nnq8y ago

Huh?! ever seen a c++ project not using any pre-C++17 code?! If it's there, sooner or later you're going to have to debug through it :)

Anyway, C++ is nothing but boring... even the bugs you encounter are nothing bu extremely surprising and "creative" :P

pjmlpOP8y ago

I wrote C++17, just to hint how one should aim to write proper code as of 2018. At very least, one should be making use of C++11 and whatever the compiler already supports from C++14.

Of course, it will take time to move from "C compiled with C++ compiler" to something better, specially in the embedded domain where Assembly and C still rule.

The tools are there, and an incremental update into safer code is always better than throwing everything away, and rewrite everything, including the already fixed bugs.

The only thing that C++ cannot fight against is the C mentality. That is only possible in languages that lack copy-paste compatibility with C.

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