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Well... 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++.
With 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.
Well... 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++.
I 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.
Edit: I see 3 months old changelogs in the dev branch. Those weren't there the last time I checked. huh
I think his hate of C++ comes from this bad experience.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then again, his latest project, a scuba diving application, is written in C++.
He says C++ is not good for writing things like kernels, not that is good for absolutely nothing.
I wouldn't call that a nuanced opinion.
Generally speaking, we should not give someone a pass on poor behavior just because they're technically talented.
Then again, when Linus rants, you take out the popcorns, sit on the side and just enjoy the show.