| ▲ | downrightmike 8 hours ago | |
C is fine C++ is where they jumped the shark | ||
| ▲ | MyOutfitIsVague 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
C++ is far better than C in very many ways. It's also far worse than C in very many other ways. Given a choice between the two, I'd still choose C++ every day just for RAII. There's only so much that we can blame programmers for memory leaks, use-after-free, buffer overflows, and other things that are still common in new C code. At some point, it is the language itself that is unsuitable and insufficient. | ||
| ▲ | pjmlp 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Until WG14 ackwnowledges the safety holes in C, isn't fine at all, it should be nuked. | ||
| ▲ | cowsandmilk 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I’m not sure what that has to do with the comment you’re replying to… | ||
| ▲ | bnolsen 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
C++ explored a lot of ideas that some modern languages borrowed. C++ just had to haul along all the cruft it inherited and built up. | ||
| ▲ | jeltz 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
No, C is not fine. It is a really bad language that I unfortunately have to code professionally. | ||