[off-topic] Sony releases PS Vita SDK

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/19/12 3:05 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Yeah, I've been working with C++ for almost 2 decades, and I really
> can't say I'd recommend it for new projects. At my day job, for example,
> we actually migrated from C++ back to plain old C, due to an incredibly
> over-engineered C++ codebase that was slow, bloated, and unmaintainable.
> It sounds laughable to the casual observer, but I have to say that there
> was actually a lot gained by this migration. We are much more productive
> with the new C-based system than C++. There are just too many ways to
> write bad code in C++. C makes everything simple and clear, if a bit
> tedious at times (due to basically partially reimplementing a class
> system in C).

This is interesting. We use C++ at Facebook all over the place, and 
gainfully. If we were to use C, we'd have major difficulties with e.g. 
containers. The thought of using a hashtable in C... ouch.

Andrei