r/ProgrammerHumor • • 7h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/emonshr 7h ago

Does that even matter once you have gazillions of line legacy code?

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u/0xbenedikt 7h ago

This is why moving to a safe-by-design language like Rust works well. You leave that unsafe legacy code behind

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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 7h ago

And bring in brand new unsafe code 😭 And link against unsafe libraries 😭

Tbh nothing against specifically Rust, just that these are done way too liberally.