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A video arguing C++ is the worst programming language to ever exist (youtu.be)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programming@programming.dev

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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

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[–] Custodian6718@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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

JS was hastily put together
it was Never meant to be used for something other than some interactivity in the web Actually Here is a Third one:
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 1 points 5 hours ago

Sure, I'm familiar with the conditions under which Javascript was created, but those are all political issues, not technical ones.

If you had to go back and recreate another C++, you would be forgiven for creating a bad language, because making a good, usable language without a garbage collector is really hard, and even moreso when it has to be compatible with C. If you had to recreate Javascript... I would think it would be expected that you don't make a language with the same kinds of flaws JS has today. There were plenty of examples of languages Javascript could have been based off of when it was written (like Java).

Case in point: it took decades for Rust to come around which was the first real challenge to C++. In the same period of time, we saw several GC languages appear (Java, C#, Go, PHP, Swift, Ruby, Python, all younger than C++), all competing against each other. Javascript would have been abandoned if it didn't have a monopoly on web programming.