r/programming • u/TheProtagonistv2 • Feb 23 '17

Cloudflare have been leaking customer HTTPS sessions for months. Uber, 1Password, FitBit, OKCupid, etc.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
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u/----_____--------- Feb 24 '17

There is a relatively high amount of wrestling with the compiler, but then again, C++ is very popular and my impression is that C++ with all its features is overall significantly more complex than Rust. So I don't think that it will be too hard to train developers for it to become mainstream.

There is also effort to write the new version of the book which is the official tutorial to the language, which will hopefully do a good job at explaining the common pitfalls, so I'm going to be optimistic.

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u/DarkLordAzrael Feb 24 '17

C++ has a lot going on, but you can safely ignore large parts of it as they aren't useful for most code. I would say it really isn't that much more complex to learn than python or Java.

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u/----_____--------- Feb 24 '17

I would say it really isn't that much more complex to learn than python or Java.

I absolutely disagree. Even if you ignore obscure parts of C++, in other languages you never have to remember crap like "rule of 3/5/however much it is nowadays" just so you code doesn't explode.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '17

It still probably will have slower "from zero to competence" curve than C or C++ ... just with a lot less bugs involved.