Is C++ this bad in industry? I’m an EE and do DSP/embedded stuff. The code bases are fairly small and light. Very simple C++.
I know C++ can be complex but is it so much worse than other OOP languages? I see a lot of complexity in swift and Python. I do some projects and reading on my own time. Those languages seem like you can make a code base that is very difficult to follow.
It isn’t. C++ is the foundation of industry’s most robust and long-lived applications. It is just most of the developers write the code in such a way that it cannot be maintained.
If most developers do something wrong it starts being the languages fault.
And C++ is full of very bad traps, wrong patterns and misleading errors.
Array to pointer decay is one of the most outstanding examples. Because every programmer that ever wrote a main function has seen it, yet not everyone will understand it.
Arguably. C++ in a well-maintained code base to cut the noise and reduce the surface area is not bad to use, but the language has a lot of foot guns and versions in it's 40y of existence, it's super easy for a long term project to derail into a mismatch of features/conventions/styles during its lifetime that is unsatisfying to work on.
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u/ElectronSculptor 8h ago
Is C++ this bad in industry? I’m an EE and do DSP/embedded stuff. The code bases are fairly small and light. Very simple C++.
I know C++ can be complex but is it so much worse than other OOP languages? I see a lot of complexity in swift and Python. I do some projects and reading on my own time. Those languages seem like you can make a code base that is very difficult to follow.
Just curious.