alt Hacker NewsWell, the best way to prevent mistakes is to make everything super complicated and damn hard to do. The best way to prevent mistakes is to approach it to do the essential stuff and avoid the fluffy stuff.
Well, the best way to prevent mistakes is to make everything super complicated and damn hard to do. The best way to prevent mistakes is to approach it to do the essential stuff and avoid the fluffy stuff.
Huh? The best way to prevent mistakes is to make doing it right easy. Manually doing everything just means a lot of room to mess up. Using the newer constructs my means you can't make a mistake as the hard work is done correctly for you. Zero cost abstraction means that it has no downside to manually doing it.
C++ is trivial compared to the code I work on. If you are writing hello world complexity then C++ might be complex but some of us work on hard problems.