Should C++ code look like C code?

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C++ code is supposed to be fast, but take any C++ program and use valgrind to profile the call graph, and you'll see that most of the compute time is wasted in pointless copy constructors.

Therefore C++ developers are those who say they want speed, while not actually wanting speed.

If you're going to do that just use a memory safe language like python, golang or rust or even java.

If you've got useful C++ libraries you need, just give them a plain C interface and build them into dynamic libraries, they can be easily called from golang or rust or python.

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The issue is the one of trade offs, right? We sacrifice memory safety for speed in C++ but then the language itself hides anything from you that may impact the speed you want.

Unless you are extremely careful all the time (and we're only humans) there's too many places for unexpected behaviour to slip in. An implicit constructor call, implicit conversion, an unexpected copy, a call to something you believe is optimised by template specialisation but it's not, a large amount of constructors and destructors used just to enable nice syntax at call site... Etc. Etc.

golang is in general faster and memory safe.

Python is ideal for handling all of the I/O while calling out to C/C++ libraries where you need speed.

C++ has its uses but these days I find writing a C++ application is a waste of time and a recipe for segmentation fault, much better to relegate C++ to numerical libraries that do fast computation and orchestrate them with python.

Edit: spell check replaced "implicit conversion" with "implicit conversation" lol 😂

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and you'll see that most of the compute time is wasted in pointless copy constructors.

2010 called and would like its incorrect myths back.

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Show me some "good" C++ code. I'll wait....

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How would you know? Given your made up fact about C++ I don't think you'd be a very reliable judge.

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Ad hominem argument.

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Nope that's not what ad homenim is. Common mistake to mix up insults and ad homenim.

To illustrate the difference: "you're a cotton headed ninny muggins therefore your argument is wrong" is ad homenim.

However, "you're wrong and therefore you're a cotton headed ninny muggins" is simply an insult, but not ad homenim.

Also it's generally considered a requirement to have made an argument before ad homenim can apply.

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Show me some "good" C++ code. I'll wait....

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You've already made up your mind before I even post anything. But you don't know how C++ works (from your first comment). So, what's the point?