Is C++ goated?

[Grady_Smith]

Keep this simple, yes or no with a brief explanation why.

Personally, I think it is awesome. I love how you get the control of c, with some of the ease of a object based language.

[Raytsou]

C++ is a tool and so isn't goated in the same way one wouldn't consider a screwdriver goated. It's not possible to evaluate in a vacuum since each tool is designed to do a specific job. For example, I would consider C++ a horrible tool for students first getting introduced to programming or for rapidly prototyping where iteration speed matters more than performance.

 

C++ is a multi-paradigm high level general purpose programming language that exposes a memory model for finer control of hardware resources. It's great at what it does and has a great ecosystem due to C compatibility. You can write procedural, object oriented, or functional code and mix those styles within one codebase. But all this legacy support enables developers to write brittle and/or unsafe code.

[wasab]

Note that modern c++ is nothing like what you see in textbook. The language evolved so much it is almost like writing es6 Javascript vs es2/3

 

No body sane uses raw pointers anymore for instance. It is almost always smart pointers. 

 

Info from this video 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc

[dabockster]

Rust is goated. Chapel (and other transpiled languages) are even more goated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_(programming_language)

All the power of C++ but with way more memory safety at compile time (total with Rust).

[somyaljsyfe]

Yeah, for performance-critical stuff it’s basically unbeatable. The GOAT for systems programming no cap.)