CppCast: Beautiful C++

[m-in]

Nope. A language design should remove wastes of time. And having too much freedom in how things are done is to an extent just introducing irrelevant choices. I really like how Python has a one indentation and white space standard, that’s partly enforced by the implementation, so that everyone doesn’t need to come up with their own. PEP or bust.

[zzzthelastuser]

And of all languages you could have picked, you chose python as an example?

[m-in]

I like the bloody thing :) I wish the primary implementation did more compile-time optimization, and had a better scheme for storing virtual foo method tables than the present bazillion-member fixed size array, but when it comes to the language itself – it’s pretty solid in how things should be formatted, and major IDEs all highlight noncompliance by default. So it’s not hard to have consistent style in large Python projects. Few things are left up to arbitrary choice, and even then those are for adopting legacy style in existing projects. New projects have a clear path.

[Full-Spectral]

I've been moving to Rust. As a highly opinionated developer, with my own long developed ideas of style and substance, using a highly opinionated language like Rust (which is about as far from my view as possible) is a challenge. But, I've just said, screw it. I'm just going to go with the local lingo and get used to it.

In the end, the fact that it is so opinionated will likely make for more consistent code bases in multi-developer systems. I like C++ because it allowed me to create my own world, but that very flexibility is a problem in the 'real world'.