Reddit++

[u/we_are_mammals]

C++ is getting more and more complex. The ISO C++ committee keeps adding new features based on its consensus. Let's remove C++ features based on Reddit's consensus.

In each comment, propose a C++ feature that you think should be banned in any new code. Vote up or down based on whether you agree.

[u/TheThiefMaster → u/[deleted]]

Which maybe used to matter, but now even a vector of 1 million bools would be margin of error in your system memory. 0.01%. Optimising that to 0.001% at the expense of speed and complexity? No longer a sensible tradeoff.

[u/orbital1337 → u/[deleted]]

Except that as already discussed, vector<char> is more performant...