Linus Torvalds on C++
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Linus Torvalds on C++
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Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#2I have been looking for an up to date website framework like werc (on which cat-v runs) for a personal site, blog, photo gallery, but could not find anything. I am seriously bothered by the amount of bloat that is present in self-hosting projects, qhere the latest and greatest flashy javascript libabry needs to be a baseline feature, and you definitely will need a non-relational database just to be able to host a bloody blog/site.
I just want something like werc but in active development...
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#3Well... not to be a C++ apologist, but bear in mind that these comments were made by Linus back in 2007 and 2004. His views may not have changed, but C++ has certainly changed since then.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#4I have been looking for an up to date website framework like werc (on which cat-v runs) for a personal site, blog, photo gallery, but could not find anything. I am seriously bothered by the amount of bloat that is present in self-hosting projects, qhere the latest and greatest flashy javascript libabry needs to be a baseline feature, and you definitely will need a non-relational database just to be able to host a blo…
Werc is in active development. When we find a problem, we fix it. Fortunately, werc doesn't have problems to fix very often.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#5Well... not to be a C++ apologist, but bear in mind that these comments were made by Linus back in 2007 and 2004. His views may not have changed, but C++ has certainly changed since then.
Yeah, all those billions of lines of code of old C++ just rewrote themselves, so we don't have to worry about them.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#6This never gets old.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#7Well... not to be a C++ apologist, but bear in mind that these comments were made by Linus back in 2007 and 2004. His views may not have changed, but C++ has certainly changed since then.
I think this is the sort of view that he has problems with. It shows that you haven't understood any of his actual issues. It is a mindset thing as much as just C++ being `unhelpful`.
Not that it is in the posted email but one of his issues is that on-one actually understands C++, but everyone thinks they do.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#8This was written when someone just said to you
> When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd: > 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability, > it's BS.
no reason to rage when some tells you to change your whole project because he doesn't like your choices you can ignore him but sometimes you don't (he should have skipped the email), This isn't C++ bashing more than just being angry someone told you change your design because C isn't easy to handle strings with(Said in the emails).This is just someone getting angry because you are making him look guilty(in his mind) for not making a different decision when he clearly doesn't even need to do this work and if you don't like his work don't use it man, Sometimes people get angry for small reasons we all do but some get angry more than others but doesn't mean the angry bashing is his opinion or what reality is. C/C++ or whatever isn't really compared here.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#9With all due respect to Linus, this mail chain is just unreasoned argument. He vaguely mentions poor memory management and nothing else which is faulty in C++. It would have been helpful to reason out his choices then go on tirade of slang.
Re: Linus Torvalds on C++
#10Well... not to be a C++ apologist, but bear in mind that these comments were made by Linus back in 2007 and 2004. His views may not have changed, but C++ has certainly changed since then.
Then again, his latest project, a scuba diving application, is written in C++.