On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 02:25:31 UTC, po wrote:
As a fellow game dev: I don't agree with him about RAII, I find it useful He kind of has a point about exceptions, I'm not big on them
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He goes on about "freeing free'd memory", this is never something that would happen in modern C++, so he is basically proposing an inferior language design.
It happens when you don't use RAII. Sounds like he should review his concepts.
Regarding exceptions, they can be used incorrectly, but I think they tend to provide better error handling than return codes *because no one ever checks return codes*. And when you do pathologically handle error codes, the amount of code duplication can be tremendous, and the chance for errors involving improper cleanup can be quite high. Though again, RAII can be of incredible use here.
At one point he says you can't see the contents of std::vector in a debugger. What? This is trivial and has worked in every version of Visual Studio for the last 5+ years.
std::string tends to be more complicated because of the small string optimization. Most debuggers I've used don't handle that correctly out of the box, even if sorting it out really isn't difficult.
