Comment by AtlasBarfed
6 months ago
This honestly looks like C++ being feature-juryrigged to a degree that it doesn't even look like what C++ is: a c-derived low level language.
Everything is unobvious magic. Sure, you stick to a very restricted set of API usages and patterns, and all the magic allocation/deallocation happens out of sight.
But does that make it easier to debug? Better to code it?
This simply looks like C++ trying not to look like C++: like a completely different language, but one that was not built from the ground up to be that language, rather a bunch of shell games to make it look like another language as an illusion.
Yeah, I didn't have a problem keeping my shit straight in C++ in the '90s. The kitchen-sink approach since then hasn't been worth keeping up with. The fact that we're still dealing with header files means that the language stewards' priorities are not in line with practical concerns.