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0 pointsbxparks2y ago0 comments

Then there's C++. After ~30 years of it, I realized that I don't know how to initialize an object anymore. So I've given up.

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PaulDavisThe1st2y ago

I've been doing C++ since 93. What's changed that makes you feel this way?

Nevermark2y ago

Everything, man. Everything.

From the perspective of pulling some C++ programmer in 1993 into 2024, and dropping them into a large C++ code base consistently written with the latest C++ idioms.

(And yes, this is humorous exaggeration. But the name of C++ is apt. A C language dedicated to accumulating features.)

PaulDavisThe1st2y ago

It's a pre-increment operator. If it was called ++C you'd have a point :)

I just don't understand how someone could have been working in C++ and not picked up the largest changes even just by osmosis. My code-based "upgraded" to C++11 about a year ago, but I can still read C++17 and am not intimidated by C++20 fragments. YMMV I suppose.

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PaulDavisThe1st2y ago

I've been doing C++ since 93. What's changed that makes you feel this way?

Nevermark2y ago

Everything, man. Everything.

From the perspective of pulling some C++ programmer in 1993 into 2024, and dropping them into a large C++ code base consistently written with the latest C++ idioms.

(And yes, this is humorous exaggeration. But the name of C++ is apt. A C language dedicated to accumulating features.)

PaulDavisThe1st2y ago

It's a pre-increment operator. If it was called ++C you'd have a point :)

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