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New C++ Features Voted In By C++17 Standards Committee (reddit.com)
New submitter lefticus writes: The upcoming C++17 standard has reached Committee Draft stage, having been voted on in the standards committee meeting in Oulu, Finland this Saturday. This makes C++17 now feature complete, with many new interesting features such as if initializers and structured bindings having been voted in at this meeting.
An [audio] interview with the C++ committee chair, Herb Sutter, about the status of C++17 has also been posted.
An [audio] interview with the C++ committee chair, Herb Sutter, about the status of C++17 has also been posted.
The troubled minds who cooked up this infested boil of a language don't even understand how to use it. Go look at their "best practices" website. Most of it is filled with hand waving like "we'll explain this later." The standard barely moved an inch from 1998 to 2003, and now it's had 3 major revisions in the last 6 years. And with each revision, the inventors and evangelists of this language cry out "no no really, trust us, we got it right this time!" to anyone foolish enough to listen.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY understands how to use this pile of shit, much less what the "best practices" are.
Nobody uses C++ because they like it. Nobody uses it because it's a great language. Nobody uses it because it's the right tool for the job. People study this language because there is a lot of money paid to understand the piles and piles of shitty C++ code that have been written with this failed language over the years.
Unmanaged code is inherently unsafe. C++ may be necessary in places but it doesn't belong in a line of business application