Hm is it me or there is some sort of obsession to constantly update a programming language to fill it with "stuff" and "features"
I'm noticing a clear trend for this in #csharp and #cpp, but I'm sure there are others
I mean people keep asking why C is still widely used. I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons is that the spec has barely changed in 50 years or so and it works
C'mon some programming languages are fine as they are, please don't keep crowding them unless absolutely necessary pls?
@glitchypixel You can pretty much use C++ like we were living in 1998 if you please, and that's pretty cool. But in the meantime the additions make it possible to write the same programs more efficiently with better performance and safer too, and that's even cooler.
@asperamanca@glitchypixel this. I get that "the way you write programs becomes obsolete every three years" is frustrating, but at least C++ remains backwards compatible. Like you said, you can still code like it's 1990 if you really want. And all those old libraries also still work.
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