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As an aside, having used C++ in the early 90s when it was first available in stand-alone compilers (rather than a preprocessor), it boggles my mind that we are
by coldcode 2y ago
As an aside, having used C++ in the early 90s when it was first available in stand-alone compilers (rather than a preprocessor), it boggles my mind that we are seeing C++26.
- bluGill 2y agoOnce a language becomes popular it never really goes away. COBAL has been on the list of things to never write code in because it is so bad (COBAL was one of the first languages what makes it bad sound good, we only know they are bad ideas because we tried them extensively enough to know. As such I cannot fault COBAL for being bad). C++ also is extremely popular and so it will take years to go away if something better exists. I'm not convinced Rust is better - it has some good points that I find interesting but there are also some trade offs that need to be made and so I'm not sure they are better.