[petilon]

C++ is probably the only language that needs a strong style guide, to define a subset you are allowed to use in the project.

Linus Torwalds famously said that subset is zero. You're not allowed to use C++ in Linux, a wise move.

Here's Google's: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html Search for "do not use" and you'll find plenty of hits.

[tcfhgj]

> C++ is probably the only language that needs a strong style guide,

here you go: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines

[zeroq]

Good Lord.

Reminds me of Good Parts, Bad Parts meme of JS.

[bigcityslider]

And it's not because he's cranky or something, he was holding out for something worthy to possibly use instead of C. Turned out to be Rust.

[leecommamichael]

> And it's not because he's cranky or something, he was holding out for something worthy to possibly use instead of C.

Good point.

> Turned out to be Rust.

He was evaluating C++ in the 90's, you make it sound like he recently decided to write Rust instead of C. The reality is that Rust is allowed in limited ways into _some parts_ of the kernel codebase. Rust got so much further than C++ ever did, that is true.

[pjmlp]

Java, Python, C#, Common Lisp, Perl, also deserve guides.

The home page of that link isn't only for C++.

[rjh29]

Perl is another example. It has a dedicated linter to detect the myriad ways of using it wrong.