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blub on Feb 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry

Have a gut feeling that polyglots can’t handle C++ so well because their strategies for using several languages fail: one has to know C++ well in order to be able to use it successfully.

I know C++ memory management like the back of my hand and much of the STL (with some C++17+ exceptions) by heart. But even though I’ve used both C# and Java in the past and could jump back in, my working knowledge of those languages right now is near zero.

Polyglots truly are jacks of all trades and masters of none.

ReflectedImage on Feb 4, 2023 [–]

Rust is Polygolt friendly and fills the same space as C++. I would say things are not looking good for C++ right now.

blub on Feb 7, 2023 | [–]

It’s not, it’s in the same complexity class as C++, except many more errors happen at compile time.

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