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by Buttons840 785 days ago
It's a chicken and egg problem.

You mention the average C++ programmer won't know the latest features, but if you did find an enthusiast who knew the latest features, you and the team probably wouldn't allow the use of those new features.

I can't imagine a more soul draining job than maintaining a corporate C++ codebase. Talk about doing the bare minimum.
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shrimp_emoji 785 days ago
> I can't imagine a more soul draining job than maintaining a corporate C++ codebase.

To me, that's anything web-related in Java/C#/Go/JS.

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pif 785 days ago
> I can't imagine a more soul draining job than maintaining a corporate C++ codebase.

Especially if most of the developers learnt Microsoft Visual C++ and believe that is proper C++!

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