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You can't revert this trend - C++ is a legacy language being depreciated by more and more projects.

C++ and Rust are simply not competing on the same level. You don't need a complicated "enterprise" building farm/cluster to build your project, dependencies are managed by the guys who also write your compiler, there is a growing community that actually listen to your feedback and you don't need to wait 40 years to get networking support into the standard library. What C++ can offer? Languages like Rust, Golang and Zig all want their users to focus on their applications, while C++ just wants you to focus on C++. OO was a cool concept back in the 90s, but that was 30 years ago when you have 8MBytes of RAM if you are lucky - who wants to model every program using OO in 2023?

It has never been a better time to depreciate the C++ language and codebases written in C++. Museum is a much better place for C++.

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I’ve noticed that the tone is becoming rougher with each new Rust story. I’d be curious to know what kind of professional would choose to express themselves in this way, it’s pretty embarrassing.

First of all, that blog post - as many Rust-themed blogs from start-ups - is a submarine article attempting to increase the notoriety of their product. Not enough to disqualify it, but a hint that it won’t necessarily be technically solid.

And indeed, on a technical level it’s superficial and doesn’t give any code examples to substantiate its claims. Code is critically important, because as another recent blog showed, some people don’t know why it’s a bad idea to pass non-zero-terminated char buffers to C string functions and then turn this into a big story about the dangers of C++.

The story also has some red flags, such as not being able to enforce coding standards. Code review is a near-mandatory quality control and teaching method that easily handles this. Clang-format and clang-tidy take care of the low-hanging fruit.

Having segfaults is a really bad sign. So is not mentioning the words address sanitizer, valgrind or similar.

Having memory leaks in 2021 is incomprehensible. This is an amateur mistake of the worst kind in modern C++. It means they’re writing C.

I don’t have time to dig more in depth, but there’s a disturbing lack of critical thinking and skepticism in these comments.

> I’d be curious to know what kind of professional would choose to express themselves in this way, it’s pretty embarrassing.

Embarrassing for pointing out that OO is dead and it is not acceptable to ask users to wait almost 40 years to get networking support into the standard library? No, C++ standard committee members should be embarrassed, not those disappointed users.

> that blog post - as many Rust-themed blogs from start-ups - is a submarine article attempting to increase the notoriety of their product.

As any article published by an commercial entity, it is always about increasing its economic benefits. Personally, I don't know anyone from the company but their blog is just one more success story of depreciating C++ and I applaud for that.

> Having memory leaks in 2021 is incomprehensible. This is an amateur mistake of the worst kind in modern C++.

Sorry but I stopped reading after this. I've been writing software for the past 20 years, worked for the biggest names in industrial, had my PhD in CS about 15 years ago, I write code on almost daily basis (Linux kernel modules, database kernel, infrastructure kind of code). I make the above mentioned amateur mistakes pretty often.

Not saying I am highly skilled, just saying if I can make such mistakes after working 20 years in the field, it wouldn't be rare for other people especially those young developers.

btw, I recently had a nasty memory leak bug in golang that took me a couple days to reproduce and debug, yes, in a GC based language.

> and you don't need to wait 40 years to get networking support into the standard library

This one hurts, but so true =)

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