[lelanthran]

> I've used Claude in agent mode to port a very complex and spaghetti coded C application to nicely structured C++

You migrated code from one of the simplest programming languages to unarguably the most complex programm language in existence. I feel for you; I really do.

How did you ensure that it didn't introduce any of the myriad of footguns that C++ has that aren't present in C?

I mean, we're talking about a language here that has an entire book just for variable initialisation - choose the wrong one for your use-case and you're boned! Just on variable initialisation, how do you know it used the correct form in all of the places?

[wvenable]

I do a lot of C++ programming and that's really over selling the issues. You don't have to read an entire book of variable initialization to do it correctly. And using STL types are a lot safer than passing pointers around.

It's actually far easier to me to tell that it's not leaking memory or accessing some unallocated data in the C++ version than the C version.

A simple language just pushes complexity from the language into the code. Being able to represent things in a more high-level way is entirely the point of this exercise because the C version didn't have the tools to express it more cleanly.