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0 pointsTillE3y ago0 comments

> Modern C++ is getting a little better all the time.

Honestly, this is the reason I haven't moved anything to Rust, despite seriously considering it in the past. I would ditch C++03 in a heartbeat, but C++14 and beyond are very usable.

C++ could certainly be better - I'm hopeful about Carbon - but it's good enough and improving fast enough that if you're already a C++ expert, I think you're pretty happy.

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Quekid53y ago· 1 in thread

Constexpr all the things is kind of a super-power of C++. Zig has an even more powerful comptime feature, but that's an aside.

(Bonus points: Declare a static constexpr value in a compilation unit... and use it somewhere at runtime to get the moral equivalent of consteval for the values you care about.)

elcritch3y ago

Compile time typing is awesome (in Nim its `{.compileTime.}`). Combine it with compile time "duck typing" and you can write some powerful but still simple code. I hope the style becomes more common!

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