Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "ForrestKnight" channel.

  1. I suspected that this would be Java centric, and sure enough, at around 5 mins, the nasty word was spoken. I'm out of here, lol.
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  2. I've tried rust, but I'm not into self-inflicted pain, so I've decided it's not for me.
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  3. I've been a C and C++ dev for 28 years. I decided to try rust, but it did my brain in real quick. Didn't like it. It was 10% writing code and 90% head against brick wall.
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  4. Rust is the most crappy awful language I've encountered in its class. I would rather write C code.
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  5. ​ @morglod Rust was a completely screwed up language right from the get go. At least C++ had a sold foundation. Some of the recent additions to C++ are unnecessary and can be ignored if one chooses. I barely touch anything post C++11.
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  6. Rust is much more difficult to learn and use than C++ in my opinion. I can do anything I want to do in C++, so I've abandoned rust. It effectivelly offers me nothing but headaches. As for multi-threading, I've developed them in C++ without any issues. I'm not sure what additional benefits rust provides there, but it does make everything 10x harder.
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  7. Anyone who can master Java has my respect. I've been developing C++ applications for 30 years, but my attempt at learning Java was a pathetic failure, a process five years in the making. Eclipse was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back... total peice of garbage. It totally got in the way of actually learning the language. As did the whole Java ecosystem. That said, I conceptually dislike languages that use runtimes (e.g. .NET or JVM). My passion was (professionally) and still is (as a hobby) focussed on high performance applications developed in C and C++. Native code on bare metal. But anyway, Java destroyed my career and that has left a sour taste 😞
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  8. OOP isn't all that complex, but from my experience, Java makes everything 10X harder than it needs to be.
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  9. @jamesnewman9547 I tried porting some C++ to Rust. Very painful experience thar I decided not to repeat. Rust sucks if my experience is anything to go by. I'm guessing 99% percent of my effort was fighting the Rust compiler.
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  10. Yeah, Java is easy until it's not, and it reaches the "not" phase pretty quickly. Wasting 15 minutes could be annoying... Java wasted 5 years of mine.
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  11. Clickbait. C++ is still used widely for operating systems and other high performance application. The Chromium engine is written in C++, as are large chunks of the Windows OS. Over 90% of the code bases I worked on over the past 30 years were C++, and probably around 9% C. And this stuff is not being rewritten in some other newfangled language. It's stable. C and C++ combined hold 20% of the language market share, plus, there's a mountain of legacy code that won't be going away any time soon. Rust is at around 1% last time I checked. In favour of C and C++ is that it's better in low-level coding scenarios.
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  12. I feel your pain. I hate it, but I'm here to see how good the video is.
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  13. ​ @tsalVlog I agree with budgetarms... I've been de eloping software in C++ for 30 years. I love it. I hate Rust with a vengence. It's just plain awful.
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  14. It's absolutely horrendous in my opinion. Others would disagree. I've been a software developer for 30 years (mostly C++), but Java ended it. I hated it. Couldn't cope. Time to quit. Hope you're successful.
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  15. Java is the language that put me out of the industry after 30 years in it.
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  16. Why does bad documentation make a language better? That seems counter intuative to me. And in fact it's one of the reasons why I've already abandoned rust. It's a battle I don't need to fight.
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  17. And the option to build to native code like C++. I've never in 30 years needed to run an application on multiple OSs.
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  18. I'm thinking that just about any language would seem great after struggling with java. That said, I don't like either language. They both burn my brain cells but in very different ways.
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