I’ve been using new shiny languages for a while now. #Rust, #Zig and #Swift in particular.
I love Rust’s tooling, Swift’s syntax, and Zig’s philosophy, but I feel like good old #Cpp is still the goat.
Yeah, the syntax can get out of hand really quickly.
Yeah, the STL is bloated.
Yeah, the tooling ecosystem is a mess.
But at the end of the day, with a good style guide and some discipline, it can check most of my boxes.
But learning new languages is always fun so I’m still doing it 😬
@javier_salcedo XD yeah. C++ is one of the few languages that ships games everywhere. No amount of nay saying and astroturfing is going to change that.
@matze@javier_salcedo Didn't mean to be literal, since compilers are bootstrapped eventually (like rustc is). But since you're chiming in, rustc emits LLVM-IR and LLVM is written in C++ so that still counts!!! ;)
I'm aware that the Rust community is trying to replace as many non-Rust components as humanly possible, though. LLVM's linker lld is a somewhat recent work in progress I believe
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