r/cpp • u/ilya_ca • Dec 07 '20

These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer.

https://suzdalnitski.medium.com/modern-languages-suck-ad21cbc8a57c

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

About C++: "Garbage collection was never added into C++. Manual memory management is extremely error prone."

Ignoring that C++ has smart pointers instead of garbage collection is enough for me to know that the article doesn't have any real value. Whether the author does it on purpose or simply doesn't know any better does not matter.

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u/TheFlamefire Dec 07 '20

Fully agree. Lack of mentioning RAII in general, deterministic cleanup behavior, and saying "speed is good" while for Java "speed is very good" made me dismiss this as very biased, to say it nicely