C++ is horrible...

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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

C++ is built to be fast, not pretty.

None of the C++-specific parts make it any faster than C. They are intended to make it more... powerful? legible? intuitive? modern? I really can't put my finger on what they're going for.

Maybe there's a mission statement or a quote from Stroustrup out there that explains it. To me, the whole thing seems to stem from a 1980s-vintage belief in OOP that I'd hope is completely obsolete in 2022. OOP has accomplished nothing.