On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 21:01:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
"With C++xx, there's little benefit to switching" is a very
common sentiment among current C++ programmers. And it's
probably true.
It's not true.
After failing to convince my coworkers to use D, I wondered about
this. I actually thought, myself, that C++14 is good enough and
nearly like writing D. I was wrong.
I've recently spent about 2 or 3 months writing C++14 at work. I
ended up complaining a lot. Most of the time because I'd written
a bug that wouldn't have happened in D. The rest was usually due
to something supposedly simple taking an inordinate amount of
work.
And the compile times... I never used to think they were _that_
important. I do now. I actually think slower when writing C++,
which means I work slower. It sounds obvious, but I only really
felt it recently.
The penny really dropped when I wrote D again for the 1st time
after weeks and weeks of C++14. It was night and day. Suddenly my
thoughts started getting to converted to code all that faster,
with fewer bugs to distract and annoy me.
Don't get me wrong: I vastly prefer C++14 to C++98 or plain C.
But even modern C++ needs this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erase%E2%80%93remove_idiom
Which is, quite frankly, ridiculous. Do you know how you split a
string in C++? You install boost, that's how.
Atila
