Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Developer Voices" channel.

  1. And how to not build poorly performing bloatware... Developers have taken the "premature optimisation is bad" dogma and removed the "premature" part.
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  2. I've just imported a 25 year old C++ program into MS VS 2022, and only a few changes were required around for loop scope. Took 10 mins. The code was originally developed on Windows 95 with MSVC 4.0. Needless to say, I was rather surprised that it was so easy.
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  3. ​ @shrek95372q No way is typescript faster than C in general.
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  4. Ridiculous. C, one of the most important and successful languages was created long before "woke" was a thing. You've demonstrated a high level of ignorance.
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  5. I agree totally. It's almost change for changes sake. C++ has proven itself over time. I've tried rust. It's like programming in a straight jacket. I've looked at go. It doesn't appeal. Nim is yet another pointless addition. Is it even used? Zig seems like yet another. It might be great, but does it solve any pressing problems? Probably not.
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  6. My favourite UI type is the native application UI. I build them. I don't like anything in a terminal, nor do I like the scattergun approach commonly found in web pages. Web developers break every usibility guideline ever proposed. Terminals should be limited to last resort usage. It's 2024, not 1984.
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  7. Snake csse is disgusting.
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  8. LLVM is just the backend that takes an IL from a language specific compiler front end. I don't know about Odin specifics, but there must be an Odin to LLVM compilation stage, in the same way as Clang/LLVM works for C++. Rust takes a similar approach, I believe.
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  9. I still use it. I've been coding in C and C++ for 30 years Never had a problem with it. The real problem is with how it's used.
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  10. Java is a horrendous language. I loath it with a passion. I loath the whole java concept, the JVM, the tools, and the ecosystem. I hate all of it with a passion. For me, it will be a career ending development environment. But I love C++. Sadly, it's not so easy to find C++ work when java is encroaching.
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  11. ​ @lubricustheslippery5028 Ok, everything is an object that isn't a primitive. Something like that is obviously what was meant.
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  12. This language sounds worse to me than rust and zig and a bunch of other C or C++ wannabes. Use only once seems like a bunch of unnecessary overhead for no good reason.
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  13. I like C as long as macros aren't overused, but I like C++ better. People just love to bash C (and C++) because it's seen as the cool thing to do by the 'in crowd'.
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  14. Did someone tell you to use zig?
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  15. Because it's not importent.
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  16. ​@j.r.8176 Yeah, but that not it's confort zone. It can be a nightmare. Square peg in round hole.
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  17. I learned C 30 years ago and I still use it, along with C++.
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  18. I haven't had any problems with slow VS for a long time. It's my main development IDE. I love it. Nothing comes close in my experience. Please don't even mention Eclipse. LOL Lisp was also my most fun language at university.
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  19. C is a great language to learn, if only to get a better understanding of what goes on under the hood.
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  20. ​@DeveloperVoices I have that book. The Pascal version. Bought a hard cover copy 30 years ago. The book just appealed to me for some reason. It was also the textbook for an introduction to a computer programming course at my university.
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  21. Why would anyone still be using make files in 2024?
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