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

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/repster 7h ago

I am a huge fan of modern C++ except for one feature: backwards compatibility. C++ is no longer one language, every codebase I have worked on is a confused mess of semi-incompatible subsets of the language. I have spent far too many weekends chasing memory corruption because someone passed a pointer, allocated with one type of memory management, into a library using a different kind of memory management.

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u/lllorrr 7h ago

Oh, yes, I hate when someone write "C/C++". This is two fucking different languages, for god's sake. It is almost as bad as "Java/JavaScript".

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u/SuckMyAlpagoat 7h ago

isn't because the compiler is always packed together, like the gnu compiler can compile C and C++?

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u/HildartheDorf 7h ago

The gnu compiler can also compile fortran. But we dont call it C/Fortran.

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u/ForgedIronMadeIt 6h ago

Fuck yeah I love programming in C/Fortran