I miss C but not C++ at all On Tuesday, 18 April 2017, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks, those of us writing managed code in here should be really grateful. > I know because on the weekend I tried to resurrect some of my C++ library > code that has been untouched since 2003. Well ... everything has changed > thanks to the security review, Unicode, new standard libraries, language > features and compilers. It took me hours to get the old code modernised to > compile, but then I ran into incomprehensible linker errors that I still > haven't solved. So I'm not there yet. > > Then this morning I had to prove to a colleague who only writes C++ that > Azure Storage was usable from C++ programs without too much suffering > because I expected and hoped that helper libraries would be available. I > found good sample articles here > <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-c-plus-plus-how-to-use-blobs> > and here > <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-c-plus-plus-how-to-use-blobs>, > and I eventually made a simple working sample, but it was hell. The > namespaces are unfamiliar, the iterators are cryptic, there are new magic > string macros, but worst of all is asynchrony via the pplx library. In > managed code we can just await or let! bind for asynchrony, and the > language syntax is short and clear. I still haven't managed to get a single > async C++ function call to work yet. > > I was hoping that after all these years, and with the trend to "modern > C++" that things would be better, and I'm sure they are once you get the > hang of it, but the change in style, libraries, language and compilers > makes your 20th century C/C++ code experience mostly obsolete. Now I really > appreciate how lucky we are writing C# and F#. > > Here endeth the post Easter sermon. > > *Greg K* >
