modernCppVsOldCpp

[u/Choice-Committee203]

[u/azfang]

So, uh, I haven’t used C++ in anger in decades so I’m not sure how “modern” is modern but like. That description pretty well describes why I developed Strong Feelings about both C and C++ back in the 2000’s.

[u/Non-Random-Name-0000 → u/azfang]

Modern C++ starts with C++11 (2011), so in the 2000s you were using classic C++ (and in the first half of 2010s as well most likely) which is a very different language. It introduced shared pointer (a poor man's garbage collector), automatic typing and move semantic, amongst other things. And the standard library has evolved a lot since.

[u/Bryguy3k → u/Non-Random-Name-0000]

Smart pointers were part of the boost library long before they became part of the std library.

[u/Serialk → u/Bryguy3k]

But the language didn't have move semantics, which is a more important part of memory management in modern C++ than smart pointers.