I love this post. Great post and great to see some C++ love here. This site definitely needs more of it.
The biggest issue with people being afraid of C++ is honestly how it's taught in my mind. Universities have taught it completely wrong, introduce concepts wrong, and don't even teach proper C++. They teach it like it is just "C with classes." A lot of universities even teach that using the STL is bad and that it's slow and want you to go back to using it like it's C. I was told by a systems professor a few times that C++ could not be used in this class because it was impossible for C++ to do the things that were required (he was wrong of course...).
C++ was my first language and it is still my baby even though it is not my main language anymore. I sometimes still go back to c++ to make sure I still remember how to do a few things and brush up on modern C++. It definitely has made me a better overall developer.
I love this post. Great post and great to see some C++ love here. This site definitely needs more of it.
The biggest issue with people being afraid of C++ is honestly how it's taught in my mind. Universities have taught it completely wrong, introduce concepts wrong, and don't even teach proper C++. They teach it like it is just "C with classes." A lot of universities even teach that using the STL is bad and that it's slow and want you to go back to using it like it's C. I was told by a systems professor a few times that C++ could not be used in this class because it was impossible for C++ to do the things that were required (he was wrong of course...).
C++ was my first language and it is still my baby even though it is not my main language anymore. I sometimes still go back to c++ to make sure I still remember how to do a few things and brush up on modern C++. It definitely has made me a better overall developer.
I totally feel you
there is one misconception that STL is slow, it's NOT
Instead it increases the productivity of the language