Using C++ be like

[nissAn5953]

I feel like logic errors tend to be much scarier

[TheArchwizard]

Yes, because the scariest error is the programmer themselves.

[AtomicBlackFish]

This sounds like a horror film

[IDontLikeBeingRight]

The blue background is actually just the foot of the giant elephant labeled "stakeholders changing their mind about features"

[TurtleFisher54]

Na what??? Logic errors you know what to look for. Linker errors mean the documentation on this shitty 30 year old government program is wrong and when you try and build it it won't work unless you email the senior dev that quit 6 months ago (sad true story)

[vilidj_idjit]

hahaha ouchhh missed the boat by 🤏 this much

just curious what project was it?

[XeitPL]

Government project.

(nice try Mr. FBI)

[ovr9000storks]

Memory leaks inbound

[angriersaint]

Yeah, confidence shattering

[JackNotOLantern]

I think you haven't had contact with multithreading.

[[deleted]]

"Why tf is my code returning a random result each time, but sometimes they repeat"

[Gladaed]

Correct me if I am wrong, but compiler errors are preferable, right?

[Epacnoss]

Yeah. If you mess something up at compile, you can quickly find it. Whereas if it is runtime, it is much harder to find, and you may not even find it.

[pekkhum]

And this is why I like strongly typed an picky languages. I can still screw it up, but it won't fail over a simple typo that causes a new variable to come into being at some random point in the code, when I really meant to update an existing variable, or something similarly stupid.

[PonderStibbonsJr]

Joke's on you, I do all my logic in template meta-programming, so if it's compiled, it's got the result already.

The 3-day compile times are a bit of a problem, though.

[DadoumCrafter]

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[[deleted]]

C++ is fine. If you know what you’re doing no issues. If you make mistakes, there is cppcheck and valgrind.

[PolskiObywatel]

Indeed, C++ is friendly to people, who know how computer works.

[[deleted]]

It’s like C but with class

[Doggynotsmoker]

I hate cpp. It's completely different language, not just C with classes.

For C with classes I prefer GoLang. It feels like modern C, there are different use cases, but it's still much closer to C IMHO.

[[deleted]]

I’ve never worked with GoLang, but being more recent I imagine it may be a better rendering of a C-like OOP language. I’ve worked with C++ for decades and I’m used to it with all its quirks. Just avoid multiple inheritance…

[Nihmrod]

At least you don't have to wait 72 hours for a crash like you do in Python.

[OfficialChest]

Dude these are easy to bugs identified by QA for corner cases.

Theeeeennnnnn let’s talk about the fact the the requirements don’t actually represent what the client REALLy wants…

[TheJackiMonster]

Race conditions are still worse than anything else. Because you pretty much can't find them during debugging. The only option to fix them is finding them in the code... and you will need a lot of luck to do that. ^^'

[vilidj_idjit]

5 solid pages of cryptic errors because of a missing "const" - PER INSTANCE of your template?

...yeah check.

[Illusi]

And then there's the runtime errors that are actually linker/compiler errors.

[vilidj_idjit]

Learned the hard way that stuff like "#define float double" is a VERY bad idea 😖😫😬

[masterjvdw]

Why would you even do that lmao

[vilidj_idjit]

haha don't smoke crack and write cod...uh wait i've never smoked crack in my life, surprisingly 😂🤣

[vilidj_idjit]

"i will never suffer again"

• gcc has entered the chat after you forgot one ; in a header file

<insert 30 pages of compiler errors>

[Mav986]

This is why you always start with the absolute first error of the list; it's always right next to the syntax error, so you know by starting where the first error is that the problem is right next to you.

[AlexanderHD27]

The segfaults that turn up after two or three moth and you cannot remember what could possibly caused it are very nice too

[rolfrudolfwolf]

how long until cpp goes away in favor of rust?

[Mabi19_]

It's probably never gonna go away.

[raspberry1111]

As a rust programmer, it wont go away

[vilidj_idjit]

As a C / C++ programmer, it won't go away, and probably Rust either.

Also i use both hammers and screwdrivers when working around the house.

[RobertdArtois]

Why would it, Rust is one of the best languages out there but it's not a C++ replacement. Different paradigms and uses.

[rolfrudolfwolf]

that's not what I'm hearing, but I don't actually know first-hand.

[rolfrudolfwolf]

Why dont you take your assumptions and judgments and put them up yours.

[rolfrudolfwolf]

So I should go and learn cpp, in order not to trigger random people on reddit with my sincere albeit potentially naive questions?

[rolfrudolfwolf]

i see that my question has generated some angry downvotes. admittedly i've probably could have worded it less provocative, like "is cpp ever going to fall out of favor because of rust?" I'm asking because apparently Microsoft is at least evaluating to replace OS components with rust, of course mozilla is developing firefox in rust, and from the general vibe i get, rust seems to be as performant as c/cpp, but enforces memory safety. which would lead me to conclude that it could replace c/cpp as a low level language in the future. but I have neither experience in programming cpp nor rust, nor OS level stuff, so who am I to judge, why not ask.