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[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 115 points 1 month ago

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 46 points 1 month 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 33 points 1 month 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.

[-] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month 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 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] vivendi@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

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 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Blass_Rose@pawb.social 1 points 1 month 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...

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 75 points 1 month ago

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

[-] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 32 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

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

[-] halvar@lemy.lol 21 points 1 month ago

will definetly haunt me in my nightmares to come

[-] seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Apache Pig from the image filename.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 43 points 1 month ago
[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

But is it accurate in spirit?

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 12 points 1 month 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 1 month ago
[-] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 15 points 1 month ago
[-] 30p87@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

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...

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 23 points 1 month ago

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

[-] iii@mander.xyz 20 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I pronounce it "Cee Tee Tee"

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