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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 162 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

C++ gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you did not know rope could do that you should have read the manual.

It's like a chainsaw with all the bells and whistles but all the safety features removed. Sure you can chop wood with it really fast and probably stone too if you #include diamondteeth library, you can even hammer in nails if you #include hammer. But you are alone responsible for your safety and it's probably not the best tool for any given job.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 61 points 3 weeks ago

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off

Byarne Stroustrup (original creator of c++)

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 49 points 3 weeks ago

The incredible thing about this chainsaw is that no two people use it the same way. You think you knew most things about the chainsaw until you see someone else use it. They use a completely different technique, holding it in a way you never considered a possibility, and use buttons you didn’t know were even there - let alone what they are for. They’re equally mystified in terror when they see you use the chainsaw.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You should also really be using the latest chainsaw model with new safety features, but your workplace swears by the gas guzzling piece of shit from 1996

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The new safety features all break down under stress and make the tool as safe as the 1996 piece as soon as you put them in a dangerous environment.

Also, both the new and the 1996 pieces have hidden explosives that were placed there by the new tooling used to build them. Nobody will tell you where they are, you should know that already. Don't hit them.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they? As long as you use RAII and modern shit and keep to something like GCC, it should be safe, right?

I don't do C++ these days

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

it should be safe, right?

Are you phishing for an Anakin / Padme meme?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Like a real powertool, if you unscrew the safety features because you feel they're getting in your way, they no longer provide safety. Having the guard from a chainsaw in your back pocket does nothing to protect you from the chainsaw you're holding.

[–] Blass_Rose@pawb.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

I loved when my IDE would warn me that my code wasn't deterministic unless I used c++11 or newer compilers because previous versions technically didn't define how it should work, so every compiler handled it differently.

And all the times I had to specify C++11 because it had features I needed, and suddenly it was a huge headache because the testing pipeline wasn't REALLY compatible, it just said it was, and then handed it off to manual review. Something I didn't know until 6 months after I started using it...

[–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No programming language in the world can keep you from shooting yourself in the foot.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

No chainsaw in the world can prevent you from chopping your leg off. Modern ones have a kickback bar, safety throttle, chain catcher, centrifugal clutch etc making it harder.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

True, but some make it easier than others. In some cases, they default to foot shooting, you have to work to shoot elsewhere.

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The bells and whistles would need to be pretty loud to be heard over the regular chainsaw operation noises

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 93 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, it is a little-known fact that the GNU logo is Richard Stallman’s fursona.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 40 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 73 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Kieth is still preferable to some of the other mascots out there. Looking at you Sudo Sandwich -

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

will definetly haunt me in my nightmares to come

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago

This will be repooorted.

[–] seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Apache Pig from the image filename.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 52 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But is it accurate in spirit?

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 15 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's a cyborg that has a fully human body with increasingly modern Robots growing out of his head like a AI generated matrioshka doll.

Lower robots have lost some vestigial body parts.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stallman didn't draw it but I would argue in the absence of any other mascot the fact that some people have eaten the onion and believe it sort of does make it the de facto C++ mascot...

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Language prescriptivists in shambles

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 14 points 3 weeks ago

Well OP did ask "is this accurate", so...

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

If Brian Lunduke says it's false, it must be true.

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Keith has some issues, but he will still get the job done.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago

Keith will work his ass of if you show him some love, because he's not used to that

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I pronounce it "Cee Tee Tee"

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I would assume so since c++ was made as a joke.