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Comment by zlfn

4 hours ago

C++ seems to be constantly getting complicated. If the major version were to change, there wouldn't be any need for backward compatibility with the existing code, and it would have been okay to delete that syntax while creating an automatic formatter.

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PaulDavisThe1st  1 hour ago

>If the major version were to change, there wouldn't be any need for backward compatibility with the existing code,

I have no idea where you get this idea from. I expect gcc v28 to be able to compile C++ from 2008, and I'm not alone in that.

dnmc  4 hours ago

Are you suggesting we move to C++++?

  • zlfn  3 hours ago

    It's already there. It's called C#

    • HackerThemAll  3 hours ago

      Well, C# also has its quirks already. Like the crippled finalizers which are never to be used. If the IDisposable interface had been correctly designed, finalizers could become be the "public void Dispose(void)". Or the manual passing of Task in case of async methods, which is... kinda smelly.

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  • m-schuetz  3 hours ago

    Personally I like C+. Picking the nice parts of C++, but skipping all the nonsense. I just wish C++ hadn't deliberately screwed up designated initializers with mandatory ordering. The C version of it that allows out-of-order assignments is clearly superior.