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1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 02:44:29 EST Verius
   The hate boner a lot of people seem to have for C++ is amusing. Sure other languages often more protection against safety issues but few languages are as good when performance is key and few are as good at interfacing with C. And the main exception (C itself) is arguably worse in terms of safety while having less support for large scale programming. Is C++ perfect? Hell no. But for quite a few applications it's the most viable choice especially considering maturity of tooling and business concerns like availability of personnel.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 13:03:37 EST Annah

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      @verius Many languages do things differently than C++.  None of them really do things better.
      1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 13:23:24 EST Verius

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         @maiyannah I wouldn't say that. Plenty of languages do various things better than C++. Few however do things that C++ is optimized for better.
         1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 14:10:28 EST Annah

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            @verius I mean, I would.  Certainly some languages excel at specific generalized tasks better, but I wouldnt say theyrebetter on the whole.