[CW: SA] The Worst Programming Language You Know also has the worst people you know in positions of leadership

Yet another reason to never touch that piece of shit language ever again:

CppCon leadership and the C++ Foundation board have worked in secret to protect a person convicted of rape and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery. They have refused any transparency into a process where they have decided to allow this person full access to CppCon as an attendee, speaker and trainer. This person is well-known and trusted in the C++ community.

For some reason a lot of material around this avoids naming the person. He is Arthur O’Dwyer. Here is an article about his arrest and conviction: dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/news/…/773166/

RyanGosling,

Weird. That article is the only one that shows up about his conviction on google. I wonder if it’s being censored considering he works in tech, and google probably has interests in these people and events.

He was sentenced in June that year to a term of 120 days in jail and three years probation

What the fuck lol. 120 days? In JAIL and NOT prison? That’s not even a fucking year

chickentendrils,
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Fuck whoever it is, but I cannot say that I know a single person involved in the formalization of any language and I’m not starting now.

I’ve only used C/C++ and Python for the last ~10years. Fuck Java, the last thing I worked on was a rewrite of Java mixnetworking software, totally interoperable with Java version peers. Went from 1.5GiB memory consumption out of the box to 15MiB.

Findom_DeLuise,
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Sounds like the Java version wasn’t written with aggressive GC reference culling in mind – it will never be as memory-efficient as a purpose-built C/C++/Rust program, but 1.5 GB sounds egregious.

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