The C++ side gives you what you need to create your own seat belt: spools of razor wire and clippers to remove the sharp edges (but no gloves). If you cut yourself, it's your own damn fault. Real developers have discipline.
But people are still insisting they screw all the benches down. They already put an end on this discussion, saying that's not an option, but people won't shut-up about it...
My problem with C++ is actually with all the stuff they keep tacking on with each new edition. It's evolving into an even more complex monstrosity while at the same time keeping all sorts of nasty vestiges. At some point you're better off jumping to a new language and we're well past that point with C++. Sucks for those having to maintain legacy code.
I mean, you donāt need to use the new features though. You can use a very small subset of C++ and get by just fine.
But yeah it does contain annoyances that have been more or less āsolvedā with newer languages. I realize thereās still a lot of use cases for C++, but I really canāt see the advantage of using it unless performance is absolutely critical or you need to have 100% certainty of machine level operationsā¦which admittedly is still relevant for quite a few industries.
That's just so accurate. Literally compiling a C++ project (that's finished and uploaded without any modifications) was harder than the programming of a related Rust project.