On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:13 AM Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote:
> On 16/04/2021 19.14, redrad...@gmail.com wrote: > > My personal stop of contributing in CPython is that it is written in > pure C !! > > I wrote code in both: pure C and C++, but I like writing code in C++, > because it simplifies things without losing perfomance > > There are plenty of Open Source projects that could use more capable C++ > developers. :) > > I'm not a fan of C++. It has its use cases, e.g. in UI. Python core > isn't the best fit. AFAIK most core devs are not fluent in C++. Despite > it's name, C++ is really a different language than C. It has a different > ABI and stdlib than C, too. In my personal opinion C++ won't give us any > net benefits. I'd much rather go for Rust than C++ to gain memory safety. > Agreed. Rust would be much better than C++. Rust actually brings something new and interesting to the discussion. C++ is "almost Java", but not as good. The Linux kernel tried C++, but backed away from it. But now it's adding Rust. I've had the experience, in the past, of writing code in C++ only to find that its intended users refused to use it /because/ it was in C++. In retrospect, I'm not entirely disappointed that they did - it steered me toward sticking with bash and C, and getting more into Python.
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