alt Hacker NewsAlthough there are excellent alternatives to C++ such as Rust, C++ is still widely used as many open-source and commercial codebases are built with it.
Adding features to a language that is still actively used does not seem like a bad thing.
Although there are excellent alternatives to C++ such as Rust, C++ is still widely used as many open-source and commercial codebases are built with it.
Adding features to a language that is still actively used does not seem like a bad thing.
The amount of C++ written at my company every day is… a lot. We are slowly fighting away from it towards memory safety, but it is hard. It will take a decade.