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by loup-vaillant 1468 days ago
I'm sorry, C++?!?

Granted, C is underpowered and I would like namespaces and generics. But from a safety standpoint nowadays, C++ is just as bad. Not only is is monstrously complex, it still has all the pitfalls of C. C++ may have been "more strongly typed" back in the day, but now compiler warnings made up for that small difference.

Granted, C++ can be noticeably safer if you go RAII pointer fest, but then you're essentially programming in Java with better code generation and a worse garbage collector.

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There's also a reason to still write C today: its ubiquity. Makes it easier to deploy everywhere and to talk to other languages. It's mostly a library thing though, and the price in testing effort and bugs is steep.

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> I'm sorry, C++?!?

C++ had a defined multithreaded memory model and 2's compliment behavior before C did. Since you're all about UB, that kinda matters. A lot.

Well, I'll check who gets rid of all undefined overflows first. 2's complement is nice and dandy, but if overflow is still undefined that doesn't buy me much.

Point taken about multi threading.