Modern C++ Programming Course
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Modern C++ Programming Course
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Genuinely asking:
Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter?
This makes me sad. Programmers have the knowledge base to make some of the most sophisticated things bend to their will, and they tell a programming language is bad, because they can make mistakes with it. You can cut yourself while chopping onions, too, if you're not careful.
When I code C++, I generally select the structures/patterns I gonna use, use them, and refactor my code regularly to polish it. Nobody enforces this on me, but this is how I operate. I add a formatter to catch/fix the parts I botched on the formatting department, and regularly pass my code through valgrind to see whether it makes anything funny on the memory department.
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Most things learned don’t provide strict tools to enforce that you don’t use old practices where better modern practices exist. Do you question what the purpose is of learning most things?
Also, there are tools to look for old practices and suggest modern ones.
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There is no modern C++ without the old C++. C++ is the success that it is exactly because it has been able to evolve with no shameful past to cancel.
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Visual Studio will yell at you if your code isn't conforming to the "C++ Core Guidelines" (those guidelines basically define what "Modern C++" even means).
Unfortunately it also yells at you when your *C* code violates the C++ Core Guidelines (at least it was a few years ago when I permamently switched that "feature" off).
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Genuinely asking: Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter? This makes me sad. Programmers have the knowledge base to make some of the most sophisticated things bend to their will, and they tell a programming language is bad, because they can ma…
> Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter?
Why would I want to? Most of that is boring stuff that's hard to get consistently right and highly amenable to automation. Automation is what the computer is good at, it can have that job.
Like, why would I want to spend more mental bandwidth on tracking down whether every new goes with every delete than strictly necessary? Yeah, once in a while something is highly performance sensitive and it pays to design it just right for the use case. But it still tends to be surrounded with hundreds of other things that will do just fine with a smart pointer.
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Genuinely asking: Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter? This makes me sad. Programmers have the knowledge base to make some of the most sophisticated things bend to their will, and they tell a programming language is bad, because they can ma…
You need to talk to Bjarne and Herb...
"C++ Core Guidelines" - https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
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Genuinely asking: Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter? This makes me sad. Programmers have the knowledge base to make some of the most sophisticated things bend to their will, and they tell a programming language is bad, because they can ma…
> Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter? Why would I want to? Most of that is boring stuff that's hard to get consistently right and highly amenable to automation. Automation is what the computer is good at, it can have that job. Like, why wo…
So use RAII and smart pointers. I think that's the point.