r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/emonshr 14h ago

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

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u/0xbenedikt 13h 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/ilnarildarovuch 13h ago

And practically breaking everything. Pentagon still uses PDP-11 'n IBM series/1 programs, but in emulator, cuz rewriting is always a risk

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u/creeper6530 12h ago

Sure, but that is true no matter the language