The worst programming language of all time
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A little video about C++.0:00 Introduction1:39 Casting in C++.2:47 Keywords5:31 Types7:02 Different Ways to Do the Same Thing7:20 const8:20 Formatting and St...

Found this gem. A single well made video in a channel. The Channel owner probably made this channel just to house one video I guess.

I havent watched it all the way through but it seems to have alot of substance. By the looks of it the guy probably has spent atleast a year developing professionally in C++ and is pretty pissed to make that video as a ventfest

See if you cant agree with something he said

  • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    I also agree that Javascript is worse. C++ has two excuses for being bad:

    1. It has to be compatible with C, a language that’s multiple decades older than it, and
    2. It is not garbage collected.

    Javascript has neither of those two excuses. People only use it today because of the ubiquity of web programming. In fairness, it did kill off a few other technologies, like Flash and Java applets, but that was more Webkit and Chrome picking it as the winner than anything else.

    Maybe these arguments are a bit hand-wavy, but the way I see it, it’s like the C of the web programming era.

    • Custodian6718@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      My Brother Here are 2 for you from a java guy:

      1. JS was hastily put together
      2. it was Never meant to be used for something other than some interactivity in the web Actually Here is a Third one:
      3. it had to be redesigned from a lisp to a java Like Language for Marketing purposes…

      It also has a Lot of footguns but isnt nearly as cluttered and complicated and lets you Focus on your task at hand more

      • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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        2 days ago

        It may not be perfectly compatible, but being mostly compatible with C was a large part of its selling point when it was originally announced. Without that, it probably wouldn’t have seen as much adoption. However, that choice also led to a lot of difficult design decisions which have become a liability today.

        • BB_C@programming.dev
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          2 days ago

          mostly compatible with C

          It’s not mostly compatible, not even on the surface level, with any version of C post C89. And most of the ever-growing crap in the language came after the early years anyway, with constructs that are C++-exclusive.