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I have decades of C++ experience. I have never met any C++ developer who hasn't shot himself in the foot regularly with this damn language.
But it's the funniest language IMO, you can do frigging anything with it.
Which is why it causes problems of course.
I need to find the nut meme about programming languages again
Edit: Well this meme at least gets the gist of it
Ooh been there done that, but with opengl, lol memories...
Ooh been there done that, but with assembly language and direct register and video memory access, lol ancient memories...
Aah!
Remember direct mode/protected mode? Mode 13? That 64k color buffer, aah memories :-)
Yup. All of that. And the modes got even weirder too.
Yeah there were loafs of them!
You get a matrix, and you get a matrix. Everything gets a matrix. That's my main memory from OpenGL.
Worldmatrix, objectmatrix, movematrix, ... !
It's been a while. Is worldmatrix the same as viewmatrix? Or is that a whole other matrix?
View matrix has the perspective 1/v thing in it IIRC, the world euh, yeah it was a long time ago...
Most C++ devs blame themselves and not the language though. So it still gets used a lot.
And I fucking love it
I hate java with a passion, C# was fun (but at that time only available through the .Net nightmare) and I grew up with (Turbo ;-)) Pascal and C
So, I'm feeling rather comfortable and at home with C++
I'd like to do a bigger project in Rust once at least, but with my current project already the compile times are between 20/25 to 45mins (depends, if you have the build server available or if you need to make up with the IPC).
so, I guess, those iterations would become even longer with Rust
But I'm also having the advantage, that my applications are running very, very isolated. So I don't really need to take care about exposure and attacks.
Still... Finding a memory leak or some shared memory fuck up is everything but fun...
Especially as most of the logic runs in kernel space and debugging possibilities are mostly reduced to traces/log files
Still, I love it
Maybe it's because of the thrill ;-)
Sounds like the same stockholm syndrome I have for Arch.
Arch is great in my opinion
I'm not sure, if it was just my young age/experience with Debian, but now with Arch I could always save a system. With apt I sometimes preferred a complete re-install.
I actually really like Arch(& Arch based systems).
If that is the public opinion with C++ and Arch, I'll need to re-evaluate my masochistic tendencies, it seems
As an oldtimer myself you portray it perfectly!
Cheers from another java loather 😁
Hehe, cheers ;-)
Haha, I hate the language. But as long as I don't randomly want to use the Unreal Engine it's really easy to avoid it