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programmer job in a nutshell (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

C++ is still the far and ahead leader in game programming. All the tools are written in it and everyone is used to it.

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

C++ is an awful candidate for a first programming language to learn, at least nowadays - it is very powerful, but it's also full of foot-guns and past a certain point the learning curve becomes a wall

[-] bort@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

it's a great candidate. It was my first "real" languages (i.e. the first language, that is not php/js)

you have a text file. then call the compiler on it, and then you have a exe file, that you can run. It does exactly what it is supposed to do without thinking about the browser, the webserver, the JVM, or some other weirdness.

I get, that doing "good cpp" is difficult. And using all the weird languages features is difficult. But as long as you use strings, ints, ifs, fors, you should be fine. Just don't use generics, templates, new (keep everything on the stack), multi-inheritance, complex libraries, and it's a nice beginner language.