Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 01:27:41 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/26/2024 6:23 AM, Bonita Montero wrote: 

Am 26.05.2024 um 09:13 schrieb jak:
 

About this I only agree partially because it depends a lot on the
context in which it is used. Moreover, I would not know how to
indicate an optimal programming language for all seasons. 

 
C++ is in almost any case the better C.
 

What you describe is the greatest inconvenience of c++. To make
only one example, when they decided to rewrite the FB platform to
accelerate it, they thought of migrating from php to c++ and they
had a collapse of the staff suitable for work, so they thought of
relying a compiler that translated the php into c++ and many of
the new languages were born to try to remedy hits complexity. 

 
C++ is the wrong language for web applications.
I like Java more for that. 

>
C++ is the wrong language for real time apps.  

 
That's an incorrect statement.
 

No memory allocation allowed. 

 
It is trivially easy to write C++ code that doesn't
allocate memory dynamically.
 

>
I use C++ for my server side apps on my webserver.  Works great. 

 
I use C++ for operating systems (you can't get more real-time
than that)

Engines control is FAR more real-time that OS, to list just one example
out of many.
Of course, nowadays most of these things are no longer done on
general-purpose CPUs or even MCUs.

and bare-metal hypervisors.

It is hard to believe that you don't have at least one co-worker that
is begging to switch all new development to C approximately every week.
And couple of folks that beg for Rust.