Deterministic Memory Management With Standard Library Progress

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 18:09:10 UTC, Anthony wrote:
> To give context to my question, I don't have a problem with 
> GCs, and this question isn't stemming from a C++ background. 
> I've been told to learn C++ though, due to its efficiency and 
> power.

I think you should start with "What kind of programs do I want to 
write?" rather than what language to choose. Then pick the best 
language for that domain.

But if you want to learn C++, then starting with the basic C 
subset and add feature by feature from C++ is the best 
alternative. If learning C++ is your goal then you need to get to 
terms with well thought out memory management strategies.

Of the non-C++ languages that could give you some structure Rust 
is possibly one that could give you some training, as the Rust 
compiler enforce what you should try to achieve in C++ with 
unique_ptr (roughly the same memory model in principle).

Also, there are many variants of C++ (C++17/C++11, C++03, 
C++98...) which leads to very different programming idioms.

It takes many years to become proficient in C++. I would estimate 
that it will take 1-2 years from someone already proficient in 
C++98 to become proficient in C++17.