[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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| 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++.
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| 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.
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| Less and less, for sure.
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| Nothing the past few years.
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| They killed it.
| mskcc wrote:
| Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.
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