Not missing C++ because I'm still using it day-to-day :) On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:50 AM, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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* >> > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
