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Don’t get fooled, that’s called stockholm syndrome.
Stockholm Syndrome + Sunk Cost Fallacy + some of the better languages have lackluster corporate backing and/or third party libraries
This is quite accurate.
Source: I’ve been in this journey.
The fun thing is that, C++ being C++, this is actually an
std::overflow_error…your underflow error is someone’s underflow feature (hopefully with -fwrapv)
Is C++ actually that bad?
Well, there’s modern C++ and it looks reasonable, so you start to think: This isn’t so bad, I can work with that.
Then you join a company and you find out: They do have modern C++ code, but also half a million lines of older code that’s not in the same style. So there’s 5 different ways to do things and just getting a simple string suddenly has you casting classes and calling functions you have no clue about. And there’s a ton of different ways to shoot your foot off without warning.
After going to C# I haven’t looked back.
And even if you do get to use pure modern C++ you’ll still get burned by subtle cases of undefined behavior (e.g. you probably haven’t memorized every iterator invalidation rule for every container type) that force you to spend weeks debugging an inexplicable crash that happened in production but can only be recreated in 1/10000 runs of your test suite, but vanishes entirely if you compile in debug mode and try to use gdb.
And don’t even get me started on multi-threading and concurrency.
This is why I moved over to Rust
“Test suite”?
I’m not sure if you’re genuinely asking what a test suite is or if this is a sarcistic joke about how no one bothers to test their C++ code.
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