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by ayberk 1318 days ago
It _looks_ easier because it lets you do anything you want. C++ makes you feel like you're going faster, but then you spend two weeks debugging a weird memory issue.

I come from functional programming background, so I'm all for taking a little bit longer to make my code compile if that means it'll work. I'd rather deal with compilation errors than waking up at 2am to debug a stupid segfault.
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jeffreyrogers 1318 days ago
C++ has improved a lot over the past decade or so. Compilers can add runtime checks now that make most memory bugs easy to detect and diagnose. C++ has plenty of warts and legacy stuff that you wouldn't keep if you were designing a language from scratch, but it is way better than it used to be and there still isn't anything that fills the same space C++ targets. Rust tries to but IMO it is too opinionated.
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germandiago 1318 days ago
> but then you spend two weeks debugging a weird memory issue

this is not true anymore 90% of the time if you code with a decent knowledge... if you code C, then yes.

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bjourne 1318 days ago
> It _looks_ easier to me because it lets me do anything I want. C++ makes me feel like I'm going faster, but then I spend two weeks debugging a weird memory issue.

FTFY!

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