[HN Gopher] 21st Century C++ (Feb. 2025) by Bjarne Stroustrup
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       21st Century C++ (Feb. 2025) by Bjarne Stroustrup
        
       Author : bandwitch
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2025-02-05 09:55 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (cacm.acm.org)
        
       | zygentoma wrote:
       | Who the hell typeset this?
        
         | rbanffy wrote:
         | I'm guessing someone pasted from what went into the print
         | edition. Or Bjarne himself.
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         | It's just the first code snippet that's messed up. The rest is
         | merely wonky.
        
         | wrs wrote:
         | _Communications of the ACM_ has had unbelievably bad typography
         | for code samples for decades (predating the web). No idea how
         | this is allowed to continue.
        
         | rgovostes wrote:
         | You don't use 10 spaces of indentation? It's the 21st century.
        
       | asplake wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952720
        
       | imron wrote:
       | I want to love C++.
       | 
       | Over my career I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of it.
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       | But keeping up with it is time consuming and more and more I find
       | myself reaching for other languages.
        
         | xyproto wrote:
         | I went from being curious about C++, to hating C++, to wanting
         | to love it, to being fine with it, to using it for work for 5+
         | years, to abandoning it and finally to want to use it for game
         | development, maybe. It's the circle of life.
        
         | codr7 wrote:
         | I've been writing C++ since 1996-ish.
         | 
         | Less and less, for sure.
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         | Nothing the past few years.
         | 
         | They killed it.
        
       | mskcc wrote:
       | Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.
        
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