the TRUTH about C++ (is it worth your time?)

What do you think? Is C++ any good?

If you want to be an amazing developer learn math calculus well. Then pick c++ or rust. Done. If you want to be a cool developer go play with web tools. 😂

as someone new to programming a theme im starting to notice is it sounds like every programming language is hated by 90% of the population and the other 10% are the users

I am C++ Unreal Engine developer. And imho Unreal has the best kind of c++. You have all features of c++ (because it's c++, duh), but it's wrapped in very nice and shiny Unreal's framework. It's powerful as c++ and simple and safe as some c# or whatever. You don't need to know about all scary c++ stuff to work in UE, but if you want - you're more than welcome.

The problems with C=+ lie not in the language, but in the behaviors that it encourages in the people who use it. It is very well-suited to passive-aggressive strategies against ones coworkers.

Well, C++ is a low level language easy to learn for high level programmers I guess, it offers oop which is so great and easy to use for someone who started programming with python or C#

C++ is ugly and annoying but to be fixing it would be very simple

How was that tweet written in 2001 if Twitter wasn't a thing until 2006

C++ is key, as long as you know how to use it. The latter is what people lack. 👆

Bjarne is the King. Went to the same University I currently are taking my degree in software engineering at! Second semester in!

I 1000% agree with your approach. I started my career in software with assembly language (many, many moons ago), learned C with K&R's first edition and now use C++ for a lot of simplification. Understanding the hardware level interaction before learning the higher level languages has made me a much better developer and debugger. After, a bit exaggerated millions of lines of commercial code, I still enjoy programming every day in retirement.
Thank you for your insights!

Don't have a choice im five weeks in at occc and my proffessor is requiring us to use it i dont understand a thing and i am failing her class but i want to be an ethical hacker for my career

People who liked this should check out Rust if you haven't already. Defo an amazing experience is awaiting you.

I don't like C++ because I know that i'll write bad code with it. It's powerfull as fuck, but it's it can be powerfully crappy if you don't program with very strict guidelines.
I admire those who can, I prefer to avoid.

Please add my name to the 'C++ is shit' list.

I gave up on C++ about 13 years ago when C++ 11 was about to be ratified. By this time I had already been programming in C# and other languages and it was good to see certain features from more modern languages being added to C++. But the syntax and the compiler messages when using those features was just brutal. I became less productive than with other languages. C is great for low level programming. C++ was a good tool when there were no other tools at the time. But 20 years later, I don't see the value of C++ if I were to start a new project.

@LowLevelLearning Is it not a superset instead of a subset like you said in the video?

C++ is made intentionally to become as fast as C (slower slightly) but complicated and secure to tackle complicated systems like AAA games and systems programming. Also, what other programming languages offers technically available also to C++. It's the best general programming language that can be used to any software specialization.

People hates C++ probably because of C++ Primer book. This books doesn't give you a fully direct tutorial but instead, focusing on the details of C++ and redirecting the main course to stuff that you actually don't need as a beginner. There are other alternatives like C++ Programming: from Problem Analysis to Program Design and Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners that teaches you how to code directly using C++ syntax.

The "much better" wasn't really much better :D
both were meh, and the codes didn't even do the same thing :D

If you DREAM become master GAME DEVELOPER, than - yes.
If u have 4-6 hours a day for self studying - yes. If you are single, no girlfriend, no family , no (beer)friends, nothing that can take your time - than YES.

For who was that video created? It just says "C++ may be bad cause templates make bad code, hard abstractions(showing mFoo and Bar function names + smart_pointer + `std::` prefix to lengthen and of course everything in 1 string(it's about all the pics in these video)". Yeah, guys, this language can be bad if you write code as bad as possible, can't read compile errors with && cause you've never heard about rvalue and forward references etc. About advices it's actually kinda joke. 
1. Learn C first. Every person I know, who work on c++ more than 3 years for great companies or on high pos for tier2 company tell the same thing I fed up with working with awful C-libraries and C-code although. It's not the same language. You don't need to know C at all if you learn C++. Saying it as the person, who learned C++ as a first lang in age 18 by myself.
2. Avoid sugar. Ahah. I don't even want to crucify. But the example is wtf. Showing for-loop on iterators, which everyone will write as (auto& item : collection) (works basically equally), even if it's already written as usual for-loop it's ok. It's absolutely readable syntax which everyone would understand in a moment. After that showing some weird for-loop with separated int and comment `much better`. NO IT'S NOT. 
Why don't every video maker care about info he spreads. It's absolutely trash video that can mislead many.

Born in 1983. C and C++ are easy and simple.Snowflakes will be snowflakes.

If you're learning to be a programmer right now, it would be well worth your time to become an expert at generative AI. Learning a mid-level procedural/OO language was crucial in the 16-bit era but today it's almost a historic curiosity.

To be a professional you're still going to need the math and CS fundamentals, but you can write a complete user application without touching a text editor; and it's only going to go up from here.

For loop by index is good and all until you switch to different std container.
I wouldn't call it sugar if it provide better security. The index loop is the sugar here.
I started with C++ and it turned out to be for the best because you literally has to unlearn C if you want the best of C++!
The Mix of C and C++ is not good. But, not impossible to fix.
Stuff like .c_str() convert c++ string to const char*. But, with an overhead cost.
We shouldn't use const char* but rather string for safe and reliable string manipulation.
And string_view is a replacement for const char* as a read only parameter.

I could go on. But in my opinion C++ is awesome in spite that you have to decide what to do with many stuffs.
Once you figure it out, you can make C++ look like another language!

If you learn c++, you can learn 80% of the other languages in a week.

starting with C++ is still better than starting with Python

every time i meet a beginer programmer, there's a 70% chance they want to learn c++. out of those 70%, only 10% actually use any c++ on the regular, and the rest of them either use it every once in a while or haven't even touched it in years.

C++ is a good language to learn, even though it makes you want to shoot yourself in the foot it is really good for making video games, using it in embedded systems, etc. When you learn the C++ the basics are a little easy to learn, but when learning advanced stuff some of it can be a little confusing

People with brain cells love it and people who lack brain cells don't. It's that simple

C++ is my favourite programming language. If I have a choice I will chosse C++ anytime 👍

(But I like C and Pascal as well )

Re: caveat 2, "avoid sugar," it's not that features like iterators should be avoided, but that their appropriate use cases need to be properly understood so they can be used properly.

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if you understand c++ means that every new language becomes way easier to learn, like 1 weekend and you have a good grasp of the new one.

c++ is awesome and unique way to write code which is different than many typical programming languages due to syntax. I'd recommend someone to learn it after you learn a OOP based language like java/C#/C to understand how code works better. It took me a while to understand the syntax until I came back to learn it after mastering an OOP language. It is in every OS when you get a new computer.

tbh code in whatever the fuck you want as long as you're not looking for jobs, cuz you are a software engineer not a X language programmer only

C++ syntax is really bad. Java for example feels way more elegant than C++.

c++, the best language of all tme (after c)

Useless and pointless video.

A lot of waste of time for original coding and more for the later coders!

Could have been good if they adhered to at least one of the three founding rules of the language.

Java

I learned C but still hate C++

Idk a out doing C first. My intro to engineering course was in C and I was so lost the whole time. Same with VHDL in intro to EE. However I took something called "Progressive concepts for engineers" which was actually just "Learn C++" and I got 100% without much effort.

c++ is ultimate beast.

There is no reason to learn c++ if you want to make your life easy learn python or c# and if u want make yourself miserable just try to learn c or assembly there is no need for c++ except games

C++ is the best thing happened to programming world