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by jstimpfle
15 days ago
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Why are you unable to get my point? I understand that GCC doesn't compile with plain C compiler anymore. A lot of my own code doesn't! I'm saying that most of features like templates, constexpr, reflection etc. don't scale well to serious use, as a broad statement. I fully acknowledge this is not a black and white situation. But I encourage you to look at actual pedestrian code, it's mostly not abstracted fluffy magic template code at all. It's pushing individual bytes with totally basic means (mostly C code). Why? Because code using these fluffy features is terribly hard to maintain. Templates lock you in their own language world with incredibly bad syntax and bad ergonomics, in short: it's a pain! Personally I think even C++ classes (i.e. 1980's C++) are unusable because they bifurcate syntax/semantics needlessly and add implicit invisible scope. But I acknowledge it's somewhat possible to program with classes, and some people like to lean on RAII heavily. I mostly do not like to use RAII, and I've tried many times, I think it sucks for non-toy programming, even though obviously the idea is intuitive. |
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C++ was perfectly usable already within the constraints of DR/MS-DOS 5.0 powered PC hardware with Borland compilers, instead of plain old C.
Fluffy features power the AI revolution infrastructure.