If I was going to use C++ I would not! I would use C# and use C for the small parts that had to be fast.
I have not touched C for 25 years, not going to change :-) Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:20 AM Grant Maw <grant....@gmail.com> wrote: > I would need a very good reason to choose C++ to write a new project > today, a reason like needing to be close to the metal or needing very > fine-grained control over performance, memory usage, and other resources. > So things like writing a new OS, device drivers, high end computer games > and other graphics-intensive scenarios possibly. But for me that is never, > all my work is LOB stuff. > > .Net core more than satisfies all my current (and foreseeable) > requirements, and takes care of all the internal plumbing for me. I can't > imagine a scenario where I would need something other than c# or f# for the > sort of work I do. > > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 15:28, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Folks, It's quiet in here because I suppose you're all in lockdown >> guarding your mountains of bog-roll. I've got a TGIF contribution... >> >> A colleague was discussing how to write the most transportable C++ code >> possible and sent links to C++ 17 features >> <https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5262072/Cplusplus-17-New-Features-and-Trick> >> and C++ 20 upcoming. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B20> These >> articles quite shocked and angered me. I wrote C++ for 10 years until about >> 2003 (when .NET mercifully replaced it my LOB style work). I quite enjoyed >> C++ at the time, but after looking at those articles I'm quite angry that >> C++ has become one of the worst victims of feature-creep I have ever seen. >> It's like the C++ steering committee are suffering from an inferiority >> complex and have fought back by adding every feature of every other modern >> language into it. It's an insane jumble of the old low-level C-like >> language with bits of LINQ, C#, Rust and Haskell. The syntax of the std:: >> libraries is so cryptic it looks like a maths puzzle. >> >> Just what category of language has C++ become? What is it supposed to be >> best at? Why would I pick C++ to write a LOB app? What does Bjarne think >> about all this? >> >> There must be a huge number of developers globally using C++, but what >> are they doing with it that requires such a bloated and complex language? I >> haven't met a C++ developer in the last 15 years that can answer that >> question. >> >> *Greg K* >> >
