[atticora]

It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.

[bxparks]

Then there's C++. After ~30 years of it, I realized that I don't know how to initialize an object anymore. So I've given up.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

I've been doing C++ since 93. What's changed that makes you feel this way?

[Nevermark]

Everything, man. Everything.

From the perspective of pulling some C++ programmer in 1993 into 2024, and dropping them into a large C++ code base consistently written with the latest C++ idioms.

(And yes, this is humorous exaggeration. But the name of C++ is apt. A C language dedicated to accumulating features.)

[PaulDavisThe1st]

It's a pre-increment operator. If it was called ++C you'd have a point :)

I just don't understand how someone could have been working in C++ and not picked up the largest changes even just by osmosis. My code-based "upgraded" to C++11 about a year ago, but I can still read C++17 and am not intimidated by C++20 fragments. YMMV I suppose.

[Nevermark]

++C = Every time you go to write new code, some new features have already been adopted that you need to get hip with.

C++ = Every time you look at old code, it is already out of date based on new features that were adopted after the code was written.

[reactordev]

If only they would stop changing the rug out from under ya, am I right? Just when you finish with one API, they go and release a new one.

[jesse__]

Amazing answer