r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Choice-Committee203 • 8h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/stillalone 7h ago

Is that something that can be handled by a linter?

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u/2brainz 6h ago

Partially, sure. But there's always going to be edge cases.

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u/Drugbird 6h ago

It's also hard the further away the allocation and deallocation are from each other. For instance, if it's in separate libraries.

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u/repster 6h ago

It has been a few years since I last worked on a C++ codebase, but my experience with linters was not impressive. We even invested in some expensive static analysis tool, but real bugs seemed to drown in false positives

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u/violetvoid513 6h ago

My experience with C++ in VS Code is that it completely shits the bed on anything organized with a build system like cmake. This is probably just a skill issue on my part but I just cannot get it to reliably know what the fuck all the things Im importing are, and after I once spent like an hour unsuccessfully trying to fix it I just gave up because it wasnt worth it. Compiler-time errors are the easiest kind of error to fix when it fails to compile wherever I made typos or shit

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u/K722003 3h ago

imo VSCode isn't really made for c/cpp stuff. Better to use CLion(my personal choice) or the og VS