C++ Is An Absolute Blast

C++ is terrible, I love C++

47:45 "Any long lived C++ project is hot garbage and not fun" Throw out "C++" and it's still true.

writing games is just peak programming enjoyment

"A quick example of using directx12 api" - the 3d rendering engineer in me started snickering.

Workaround Oriented Programming is what burns me to the ground. Especially if it wasn’t my code from the beginning, I just can’t…

Will I finish the project? No but I will finish the problem. Im taking that as a personal attack

I just took my first class that used C/C++... I loved it. I felt like I actually had to learn what and why I was doing things, not just throwing together built-in functions. I don't know why this made me happier to program, but nonetheless it did 🤷‍♂️

I've been through Java, Go, Python, Ruby, little bit of PHP, C/C++. Desperately wanting to find the perfect abstraction layer for me...always find my way back to C++. There's just something about the freedom you have with the language and how powerful it is. Still have a lifetime of learning it, but am happy to do so.

I love C++ as embedded engineer. I had a problem with memory (embedded, duh) basically storing lots of float historic data for graphs and averaging. It scales terribly with number of parameters to log, but I though - wait a second, I don’t need a big precision on this data. So I found library named Half, and it’s basically single header only library that is 3000 lines long, but covers all possible architectures and compilers and brings down 32 bit float to 16 bit. Best part? Because C++ has operator overloading adding it to project and replacing my usage was as simple as doing typedef and replacing float -> Half after including single Half.hpp header. And now it takes Half the space! 0 costs abstractions are real incredible power of C++. It’s hard language, and I doubt anyone on earth (even creators) understand it fully, but at the same time it’s in my opinion best language ever.

I've used C++ through all those phases, the current phase we're at is clearly the best. It's still my language of choice for anything compiled.