• Rossphorus@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Torvalds just really dislikes C++. He’s gone on the record saying that he thinks it’s just not a good language. In his own words “C++ is just a waste, there is no design at all, just adding some scum on top of C.”

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          3 months ago

          they dumped everything in the languaga, at least samething they needed to have right, it’s otherwise statistically impossible

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          3 months ago

          The STD is maybe the only good thing C++ has over C, and even that is awful compared to other language’s standard libraries.

          I can’t name another good thing C++ has. Maybe templates. C++’s reliance on inheritance for polymorphism is awful (should’ve gone with interfaces/traits).

          Not to mention the mess with all the different types of constructors that must always be implemented.

          It’s just a bunch of bad design choices added on top of an old outdated language.