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  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Question would be rather: why is something like C++ needed for such simple apps?

    C++ seems to be in that weird in-between place of offering high level features to be reasonable productive, but still doesn’t enforce/guarantee anything to make these features safe. I’d argue, very few programs need that. Either you’re writing business stuff, then you want safety (Java, C#, rust), or you’re writing embedded/low level stuff, then you want control (C, ASM).

    The room for “productive, but not interested in safety” is basically just AAA games, I guess.

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      C is almost the old “steady” standard now it feels like. It’s so flexible and the frameworks are already built…

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        …except that we also end up with cracks in our foundations like this exploit constantly being exposed as a result of all that C

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      Well you’re not going to write asm if you want your code to be portable at all, and believe it or not C++ has a lot of features to help you not shoot yourself in the foot that C doesn’t have (ex. OOP, RAII, smart pointers).

      C wasn’t really designed with dynamic memory management in mind. It was designed for someone who has absolute control over a machine and all the memory in it. malloc() and free() are just functions that some environments expose to user mode processes, but C was never designed to care where you got your memory or what you do with it.