• Funkytom467@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I started with c++ so does c really has advantages over c++ ?

    And yeah same, Rust seems to be pretty cool too, at some point I’m gonna try it…

    • tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I started in C and switch to C++. It’s easy to think that the latter sort of picked up where the former left off, and that since the advent of C++11, it’s unfathomably further ahead. But C continues to develop and occasionally gets some new feature of its own. One example I can think of is the restrict key word that allows for certain optimizations. Afaik it’s not included in the C++ standard to date, though most compilers support it some non-standard way because of its usefulness. (With Rust, the language design itself obviates the need for such a key word, which is pretty cool.)

      Another feature added to C was the ability to initialize a struct with something like FooBar fb = {.foo=1, .bar=2};. I’ve seen modern C code that gives you something close to key word args like in Python using structs. As of C++20, they sort of added this but with the restriction that the named fields have to come in the same order as they were originally defined in the struct, which is a bit annoying.

      Over all though, C++ is way ahead of C in almost every respect.

      If you want to see something really trippy, though, have a look at all the crazy stuff that’s happened to FORTRAN. Yes, it’s still around and had a major revision in 2018.

      • aport@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        C++ is way ahead of C in the same way that a metastasized cancer is way ahead of a benign tumor