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I watched this > year old video about C++ 2020 and feel like I totally changed my outlook on C++ to from kind of negative to fairly positive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ij0YNkFUs

⬐ huhtenberg

So watched the talk just now. I've been using C++ as my main language since the early 90s and it pains me to see what it has become. I thought that I might've been missing something all along. Unfortunately, I wasn't.

The talk all but confirmed my lingering assumption that C++ is intentionally designed to be an over-engineered language with no particular regard to the elegance of its construction. Worse yet, Bjarne did it all of his own free will rather than being forced into that by "the committee" (which would've been a weak, but acceptable excuse).

If C++ were created just today, out of thin air and in its current form, there is no way in hell it would've seen any adoption. C++ is basically a long running bait-n-switch scheme. Come try a better C and then see it evolve into the Homer's car, which you have no choice but to use because it's now - surprise - an industry standard.

So, yeah, there you go /rant.

⬐ DoingIsLearning

I get a 404 for the github page linked on the video? (to read the presentation slides)

https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2019

⬐ pjmlp

Usually the slides only get uploaded after the conference, so I guess it is still not ready.

⬐ DoingIsLearning

I see thanks.