Modern C++ Won't Save Us

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 14:59:46 UTC, sighoya wrote:
> At some expert level, you would exhibit this kind of confidence.

Yes, C++ is only suitable for professional programmers... It 
isn't a "friendly" language at all.

> However, only for the code you write.
> The problem lies in semantic shadowing by different kinds of 
> casts to raw pointer coupled with different memory management 
> strategies among the frameworks.
> Passing a pointer given by framework A to B doesn't mean A and 
> B share the same assumptions about managing the pointer.

This is probably true. I don't use frameworks (beyond the basic 
system level ones). I don't really view C++ as a stand-alone 
language, except for very focused applications like compilers or 
image conversion). I think what it is best at is the same as C, 
to augment other languages. E.g. to provide more speed to Swift.