> The second is that it's written in the obsolete and unusable language of C++.

Oh come on. There's nicer ways to say "I'm not good at it". It's OK you know, you can't be good at everything. Just don't make it other people's fault.

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tormeh 4 days ago | parent [-]

Nobody's good at C++. I've written C++ and even got to the point where I felt I had things under control, but tbh that's just delusion and hubris.

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apelapan 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you look at it that way, nobody is good at anything. True perhaps but not a very useful stance.

Millions of people have built meaningful software with C++ over the past several decades. It is everywhere and it mostly works OK.

Of course, C++ is not necessarily the best choice for everything or anything. But it is a mostly reasonable choice for lots of things in 2025, just like it was in 1995.

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SleepyMyroslav 4 days ago | parent [-]

There are different levels of confidence in junior programmers code in different languages. For C++ it is one of the lowest possible.

If thousands of HN readers suddenly decide that they need to start their 10+ years learning of C++ with immediate contribution to the Ladybird project it would be not really helpful, right?

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apelapan 4 days ago | parent [-]

It would be a weird kind of bad situation, if literally thousands of juniors with little to no experience/understanding of programming simultaneously start learn-as-you-go contributing C++ code for Ladybird.

In the perhaps more plausible situation that two or three people with a reasonable foundation in CS and/or a bit of professional programming experience decide to learn C++ in order to help Ladybird, I think it would work out quite fine.

	▲	SleepyMyroslav 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I had to think carefully if I would ever agree with 'plausible situation' at any point of my career. And the answer is no. If they really needed 2-3 ppl they would have adjusted their sponsorships/donations plan and picked up those ppl full time. There are costs of bigger teams and wider contributor networks that are rarely advertised. But ofc what can I know about browsers, I am just a gamedev. From my PoV (studio tech director) in custom game engines juniors mostly do acts of wanton destruction in the name of curiosity. And then leave for better compensated industries anyway. In my opinion folks inciting random contributions from webdev crowd unfamiliar with C++ are not helping. And those who are familiar should know better than to do random drive-by features.

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desdenova 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm pretty good at C++.

By using a very simple technique, I've managed to write 0 bugs in it in the past 15 years.

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whytevuhuni 4 days ago | parent [-]

I assume that simple technique is to not write any C++, despite being pretty good at it?

	▲	desdenova 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, that was the joke.

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samtheprogram 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Hah, the same could be said about Rust.

And I’d disagree with both.