C++ 25 years ago (1996) was terrible. I used to have to keep a large C++ application going on GCC, Sun's compiler and Microsoft's compiler and it was a nightmare. Using templates with classes would invariably cause one or other of the compilers to crash, so we had to concentrate on the simplest subset of the language that worked. STL was very new and not supported on all platforms so we ended up reimplementing a lot of that in our own classes. Build times were glacial and the resulting binaries were enormous. Multiple string types. And horrific things like CORBA's C++ bindings ...
I have used C++ in 2001 with ROOT and it was a long wait most of the time. Depending on your codebase and libraries involved making compiling and linking fast was an art form
25 years ago it wasn't C++11, but C with classes. Less TMP noise, small compilation units instead of the source code of entire libraries being #include'd.
lol or MFC, I checked that out and subsequently pulled the power plug on my pc. Granted I'm probably not a very good programmer. heck my comment is probably not even on topic in this thread.
No. I was born in the 90s. in the 2000s I was mostly doing .Net and Java, started doing C++ seriously in 2010s until I discovered Rust. Have I got the C++ history wrong?
I was using both templates and the stl heavily in 2002. I started learning c++ in 94 or 95 can't remember. Turbo c++ did not have templates, before the 98 standard it mostly was c with classes. And lots of unnecessary inheritance and overloading.
Edit, should include that the experience in 2002 was on a corporate project which ultimately had many millions of lines of code, so not just some crazy guy in a basement. Lots of crazy people were in the basement with me.
