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

  1.  @gamerk316  Not sure about you but I loved the 68000 architecture. It was so elegant compared to the x86 stuff. I've been fortunate to have been working with C and C++ for 25 years but now being pushed into the Java world, I'm hating it.
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  2.  @chastitywhiterose  I like C, but I like C++ even more so. C++ provides OO features, but it doesn't mandate it. I typically use it as it was originally intended i.e. "C with classes". I'm not an OO fanatic but it's an approach that I find helps me.
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  3.  @Lambda_Ovine  That doesn't really make sense. C++ fundamentals are in a way very similar to C. I often write C++ code as if it was C i.e. using a procedural style and only using the more advanced features of C++ as needed. So I struggle to understand how you can love C while hating a C like language that provides you with so many extra useful but optional features?
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  4.  @LuvxJacqu4li8e  Python cannot replace C.
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  5. There is no monitor big enough either way. Those stupid stack dumps, exceptions and error messages are a joke. And they complain about C++ compilation errors LOL
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  6. Pointers get an undeserved bad rap from people who simply don't like them or are unable to understand them. Coming from an Assembler background, the purposes and advantages of pointer types seems obvious and intuitive.
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  7. I hate java with a vengence.
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  8.  @philosophyze  I've been using C for 40 years and haven't found much to complain about.
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  9.  @purple.requiem  All of that extra C++ stuff like STL containers snd streams are relatively heavy but unless you're going for maximum performance, it likely won't matter and it will still outperform most other languages.
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  10. There are definitely bad languages.
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  11. No, you won't. Universities are pumping out Java developers at a much higher rate than say C++. As a C++ developer, that suits me.
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  12. I hate mode based editors. And some of these editors are archaic. Emacs and vi for instance. Thought we'd moved on from this primitive stuff.
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  13. I did a similar thing, though I started a little earlier with the 6502. But the 68000 on the Amiga was a CPU with a very nice and elegant instruction set when compared to the x86. I then went on to C and C++ and never looked back. C++ is my preferred language by a huge margin.
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  14. Depends on what you want to do. Right tool for the job kind of thing. SQL is useless in my case. I have nothing to do with DBs. C# is a nice language and way better in my opinion than crappy Java. That said, I'm not a fan if anything running on a vm, so I stay with C++, a language that has served me well for almost 30 years. I came from an assembler background so C++ always seem high level or high enough. All of those obscure flavour of the month languages don't interest me. There are way too many of them. It's becoming ridiculous.
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  15. The difficulty level is over-hyped. It's not difficult to master enough of it to be productive. I learned enough in a year and have been professionally employed as a C++ developer for the past 20 years. A lot of new stuff has been added to the language (over the past few years) but you don't need much of it. Not really. I wouldn't describe it as being very mathematical. It's as mathematical as you need it to be. But it's extremely versatile and fast, and it generates native code. Those are the attributes I love about C++. Not much else comes close.
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  16. What are your goals? Web developer, backed, low level embedded controller stuff, hobbyist, game developer.... etc. Different tools for different jobs. Some tools are more versatile than others. Some are high performance, some are sloths etc.
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  17. Yeah, I hate Python. I started code in hex back in the 70s then assembler then C then C++ on the 90s. Did I say I have Python...
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  18. That must have been painful?
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  19. I don't give a toss about servers. I don't need to know anything about them. That's the whole point of the client server approach. Same with electricity. I plug in and expect my TV to work. I don't need to understand how power stations work. I don't need to be an electrician to turn on a light bulb. What I need proven is the claim that Linux is superior to Windows. That's what I've been told 1000 times already. I've tried Linux and didn't like it. That 96% of users don't want a free product that is reportedly superior to the expensive 'inferior' item tells me a lot about the original claim. Sure, Linux is popular on servers. It's free, and the people who build servers are tech heads. The other 90% see a desktop as an appliance. It just has to work reasonably reliably with minimal of fuss. That's where Windows enters the picture.
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  20. C# is a whole lot nicer as a language than java.
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  21. Does the mouse work with neovim, and does it run on Windows? Keyboard only editing is too limiting. I graduated to the mouse and keyboard in 1986.
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  22. In other words programmer error.
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  23. I started in the 70s programing the CPUs in hex. Later assembler then learned C in the 80s, C++ in the 90s until now. I also learned a bunch of other languages which I no longer use.... Ada, Pascal, Perl, Lisp, Basic and a bunch of other stuff, plus some of the Web based ones which I hate like JS. Assembly language is just a convenience layer. It removes some of the laborious calculations and provides a more human like representation. It pretty much maps mnemonics to opcodes. So for instance, the 8bit 6502 CPU op for load accumulator zero page is A5 hex. The assembler mnemonic is LDA. Modern CPUs are way too complex to code by hand in my opinion unless you're a compiler engineer or some other special case.
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  24. I like C++
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  25.  @timoteiNitrogen  A lot of that can be ignored. A lot of the code I work on is C legacy code converted to C++. No smart pointers. Very little STL stuff. It all works. I've never found a need for lambdas or a lot of the newer features.
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  26. ​ @mindfulnessrock It's ridiculously short. Two mins is insufficient for such a complex topic. I have watched hour long Git videos, and even those don't cover enough detail.
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  27. Yeah, totally agree. The anti mouse thing makes no sense.
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  28. I hated COBOL
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  29. I also started from the bottom. Now 40 years on, I've reached the C++ level.
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  30. I've been trying to learn java on and off for 25 years. I've achieved nothing. It sucks. And it's not just the language (which is horrid). It's the whole java development environment, the libraries, the JRE/JDK, IDEs, Eclipse (which is a complete dog), etc.
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  31. Brilliant. I've used many languages over the past 45 years including machine code (all in hex), Assembler, C, C++, LISP, BASIC, Pascal, Perl and ADA but Java does my head in. With 45 years of coding exoerience and two Bachelor's Degrees under my belt, I'm still struggling with Java and its bloated baggage and crap IDEs. I still haven't gotten past the "Hello World" stage. It's crap. And they say C++ is bad LOL
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  32. Node or JavaScript... that's setting a low bar
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  33. Me too. I hate the way people say 'sequal'. It grates. At least 'squeal' sounds funny.
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