[tinco]

I fully agree it is quite easy and maybe even too easy to write crappy Haskell but that is completely beside the point. I don't shit on C++ because that is a hip thing to do, whatever that means. C++ is still used in some fields, and obviously C# and Haskell (and by extension all modern languages) suck for those fields.

I think C++ was a bad idea from the start, because it attempts to be a strict superset of C, which is like trying to win a race while being tied to the current front runner. It might have allowed C++ to use the rope to get in front, but now its in front it just drags the language down.

I am trying to invent a good alternative, but obviously that is easier said than done. I like to talk about it openly and provocatively so others who are more qualified to do it might jump in and try too.

[skurmedel]

It is by no means perfect. But I think some parts of C++ is quite clever too. Templates might allow horrible code, but every time you write a container type in C or Go, you wish you had them.