[znkr]

I used to program a lot in C++ but switched to a number of different programming languages since then. Everything in C++ is this way and it’s hard to understand that things don’t have to be this way when you’re in the trenches of C++.

[jiggawatts]

I distinctly remember what a breath of fresh air it was to switch to Java and then later C# where in both languages an "int" is the only 32-bit signed integer type, instead of hundreds of redefinitions for each library like ZLIB_INT32 or whatever.

[pjmlp]

Now you can enjoy native ints on C#, as they improved C# for low level coding tasks.

[jiggawatts]

"Native" types like usize and isize as used in Rust I'm totally fine with.

What I got frustrated with in C/C++ is the insanity of each and every third-party library redefining every type. I understand the history and reasoning behind this, but it's one of those things that ought to have been fixed in the early 2000s, not decades later when it's too late.

[orwin]

I think by C++17 (14 even), it was in a very good state and since then, third party libraries are better and better. So really, a decade and a half later than you think it should have been.