[cgrealy]

> Even if you do write code, it is in C/C++ and not accessible to a wide group of people.

Eh??

There are literally millions of C++ programmers and high quality C++ compilers are available on almost every platform for free.

How is that “not accessible”?

[smcl]

Equally there are millions who don't use C or C++. I think it’s pretty fair to describe this as a "wide group of people" who would consider C or C++ inaccessible.

[cgrealy]

That’s a nonsense argument.

For any given programming language, the number of people not using it outweighs the number of people using it by several orders of magnitude.

It’s hard to get accurate numbers, but a quick google estimates there is roughly double the number of Python programmers than C++ programmers. I find it very difficult to imagine there isn’t some overlap there and even more difficult to imagine a competent Python programmer looking at C++ code and being completely unable to read it.

[smcl]

There is definitely a substantial number of people who know Python and have had little to no exposure to C or C++. To the point where they'd really rather see something like this presented in a language they're familiar with and that they can try out in an environment they've already got setup.

There's no harm in having many articles on a given subject (think how many monad posts there are) - if you dislike one you don't have to read it, there's plenty of other interesting stuff out there :-)

[cgrealy]

I don't have a problem with someone writing an article on whatever for whatever language. Go nuts.

I just think saying "articles written in C++ are inaccessible" is kinda dumb.