C++ drama
Stroustrup sure seems a whole lot more concerned about C++ *looking* unsafe than he does about it *being* unsafe
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@joepie91 with the politics the kind of people who insist on using C or C++ at most and make fun of anyone using C#, Java, etc have... it honestly tracks 100%
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@hazelnot I do have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by the comments to this on r/cpp
re: C++ drama
@joepie91 strew soup
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@joepie91 frankly the memory safety thing seems like a bit of a distraction to me. sure, it's the inciting event that lets people make the case to move to rust, but they *want* to move to rust because it's simply a much more ergonomic language. people have been talking about how awful C++ is to use since before Rust was even a thing.
if Rust didn't have the memory safety features people would still desperately want to switch to it, they just wouldn't be able to convince their employers imo
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Like, framing the displacement of your language in popularity metrics due to its disastrous security record as "unprecedented attacks on C++" sure is a Choice(tm), and one that strongly reminds me of a particular type of political rhetoric, at that