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by craftyguy 2853 days ago
> Please don't call it C++ if it doesn't even support constructors and destructors.

At least they recognize this is missing, and call it out.

> Why not use GCC or LLVM as part of your project? That seems like a better investment of your time.

Learning opportunity? Maybe they're trying to solve a problem? Or do you think the LLVM folks should have just used GCC instead of wasting their time on LLVM?

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Aren't constructors and destructors basically the main idea of c++?
C++ is too big to have any "main feature", but in any case yeah, it's a huge deal.