rbnsl

Sitting at around 4 years of experience now and last month was my first time actually implementing a graph traversal in prod, and then last week a skip list. It was fun, and I loved being able to instantly link the problems I was facing to algo/structures I knew would work, but it seems it happens so infrequently to not justify the emphasis we place on these in interviews.

I imagine any regular SWE at <insert-product-focused-company> just ends up using libraries that themselves implement all the data structure/algo pieces, leaving you with just abstractions.

Anyone here regularly using/thinking about these? And I don’t just mean small things like when to use an array vs a map but the more complex stuff

Was having this debate with a coworker recently who’s a Rust fanatic and prior C++ eng; he said the tooling and support has gotten so good you would just be shooting yourself in the foot if you ever started something new on C++. I wasn’t convinced but is this really the case? Like if you had equal skill in both, is there ever a case for doing a project in C++ (outside of being forced by the platform you’re working on or anything outside your control)?