alt Hacker NewsGenuine question, where does te average developer go to learn CPP in 2026? Despite the usual complaints it’s alive and well and Rust will not replace it.
CPP has become infinitely easier to write for me. That’s an exact figure, my total output of usable CPP lines was zero prior to LLMs.
I do however need to at least be able to write basic CPP to evaluate the code I’m generating. It’s just so hard to comb through all the bad and over complicated code out there, bad advice and outdated opinions.
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> Despite the usual complaints it’s alive and well and Rust will not replace it.
to some degree it is already being replaced:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...
source: https://blog.google/security/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-t...
Since you are already making use of LLMs, you could also ask questions about the code that it produces. I've been asking Google's AI overview and Deepseek while doing my first ever C++26 project, usually not to produce any code but to give advice or list possible approaches to implementing a feature. It's a very slow path, to the point that my project has currently more git commits than lines of code, but I'm convinced that it will pay off in the long run.
Cppreference.com is my favorite resource for up to date info.
Read Bjarne Stroustrup’s intro to programming book and then read other books.
find more books from additional readings sections of books you end up liking.
Don’t use LLM for learning as it is useless compared to searching amazon or doing general web search to find books.
You can recursively learn anything you need by finding books about needed subjects.