Is C++ better than C?

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[froop]

Sorry to say that your videos aren't recreational at all...

They are highly educational and I learn a lot from them.
Thank you so much!

[stolenlaptop]

"C sucks... But a little less than everything else"... Some random Internet guy.

[DogeOfWar]

If you used the C-style "virtual" functions where they are beneficial and use C++ specific stuff where it's beneficial then you are still writing C++, the best C++ devs know when to use certain features and when to fall back on "raw-dogging" it. that is a strength of the language imo

[Lupin_br]

1:44:30 "No, C++ was not better than C for this project."

[heavymetalmixer]

C++ "can" be better than C, but it always depends on programmer and the goal. The language has so much stuff that sometimes going for a "C with classes" style is the best choice.

[grimvian]

Two years of learning the basic C++ stuff like inheritance, composition and of course the weird cout. Then I started to investigate chrono compared to time in C. That made me finally realize, that I'm not compatible with C++.

Now two years in C and with the video by Eskild Steenberg 'how i program c', and it's great.

[ЕгорЧилиевич-юр]

There is an useful technique called CRTP - static polymorphism. It allows you to write compact OOP code and doesn't raise problem with func pointers invalidation.

[TheJanhalsema]

Depending on your definition of better, arguably, C++ is always better. You can just use it as C and only add the bits you like e.g. constexpr / templates / operator overloading and such. In recent years C++ even got the long standing missing bits from C like named struct initalization.

[Eugensson]

... you can find the answer to this and other questions in our new issue of “NO!”. Coming in June.

[MrMeltdown]

29:42 I spent many hours in a pub reading through the C++ books understanding this... that along with move constructors etc.... Then you embed that lot in some Templates and you have entered a new layer of &&<T>& ... hell.

People have a problem with perl... It is no where near that bad. Tbh.

[prof.dr.davidbuzatto]

I'm a C enthusiast and the only thing I miss is a standard implementation of the elementary data structures like lists (stack, queue, deque, list), priority queues, sets and symbol tables (red-black trees and hashtables).

[WndSks]

Vtable layout is implementation defined so you cannot have interoperability between C and C++ classes. The exception is COM on Windows where the C++ compiler is forced to use COM vtable semantics (stdcall with hidden this pointer as first parameter).

[saidwho]

1:01:00 Lol, we can already tell that C++ is worst than C, cause you're already starting to ask yourself "should I make this public or protected", and fall in the C++ dilhemma of philosophizing about objects 😂

[GoldoEb]

1:26:00 BTW, you can also specify the name of the "X" macro.
Just use the macro parameters like in the following example.

#define LIST(handler_) \
handler_(banana) \
handler_(apple) \
handler_(cherry)

And now you can have multiple different X-macros (handlers) and each of them will be defined.

[Rose-eche]

You missed out linking the source in the description today, i dont know if that was intentional or not. I personally find it extremely valuable, i have learnt so much from being able to follow along with your process by video and consulting your source when I mess up any details or want a rough idea of conventions to follow. Obviously, I don't expect this of you but if this was a slip-up, here's your opportunity to fix it.

Anyway, love your content. Thanks again

[friedrichmyers]

My rule is simple.

Write C in C++ and if things needs to be bananas, use C++ features. I still don't write classes unless I HAVE to. I don't use the new C++ std library functions unless I HAVE to.

[hedlund]

@35:00 (-ish): Have you done any streams or vods on Rust/C interop specifically? If not I'd love to see it, at some point :)

Edit: Also, wasn't Soursoup head of programming research at Bell Labs for a long-ass time?

[exosdel]

Love ur vids on C, keep them comming!

[OlivierP]

Was I the only one shouting "create a virtual destructor for Task!" in front of my screen the whole time ?

[kibels]

I work on a project with a C engine and C++ plugins. If you don't care about what happens with exceptions/signals it's fine but shit gets messy when it has to cross from one runtime to the other and back.