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nickpsecurity on April 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why would you learn C++ in 2016?

I'd consider learning it to work on a critical FOSS projects already done in C++, make money with it, or write language analysis/transformation tools to make C++ apps safer automatically. Little reason to use it in a new project without legacy C++ code.

hga on April 13, 2016 [–]

Any insight into why Genode went with C++? That, plus swearing to never program in it again after doing so for a decade, rather curb my enthusiasm towards it.

nickpsecurity on April 13, 2016 | [–]

Jesus... No I didn't know. So, add that to the list of reasons I might grudgingly learn C++.

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