[dustfinger]

Despite all the critisism, C++ has been my favorite language for 20+ years. Nowadays I code 99% of the time in python and previously TypeScript, but all my personal for fun projects are in C++. I just enjoy coding in it so much more. I know I will get some heat for this, but I would love to live in an idealistic world where computers were still for hackers and it was all just about fun not profit. I was so inspired by the writings of Eric S. Raymond, I always hoped I would experience some of that. ~SIGH~. Maybe in my retirement.

[ActorNightly]

> but I would love to live in an idealistic world where computers were still for hackers

This never changed.

In the past, hacking was exploiting human errors in writing faulty code. These days, its pretty much the same thing except the faulty code isn't things like buffer overflows due to no bounds checking, but more higher level faulty software with things like password reuse, no 2 factor authentication, and so on.

[dustfinger]

While that is partly what I meant, my notion was really about being creative, inventive and having a lot of fun hacking code or hardware without it being about work. I really meant these notions of hacking:

- https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

- https://stallman.org/articles/happy-hacking.html

- http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html