Why use C++

Why is C++ so useless and to all the C++ people here what do you use it for?

- It is useless for systems programming because you can just use C and every serious systems programmer does that and every serious kernel/driver programmer hates C++.

- There are nicer languages for userspace programming so why use C++? It doesn't even have garbage collection and its standard library is a joke. Not to mention all the things that are so horribly broken in this language.

Why use C++ at all? Seriously this language is useless and Linus Torvalds agrees.

>>39
http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2009/06/22/i-didnt-order-that-so-why-is-it-on-my-bill-episode-1/

>>41 I Always try to make my C functions "inline void()"


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>>41

Touché. That C++ feature is very silly.

>>1
I find it interesting that you arrived at that conclusion, despite the prevalence of C++.

I don't think you're as familiar with C++ as you would like to believe.

>>44
What do you mean by that? please elaborate. I'm a driver and embedded systems developer so I can only talk about low-level programming and C++ is hardly used for that. In fact most of the guys I know hate it.

>>45
I didn't say that system programming used C++. I said that it's quite prevalent in the market. Businesses don't like costly and broken things. If C++ were as costly and broken as some would like you to believe, no business in its right mind would use it. Ever.

>>46
THIS IS WHAT IDIOTS ACTUALLY BELEIVE

>>46
/prog/ is a huge neckbeard wankfest over SICP, they don't know or care about practical applications for programming.

>>46
C++ had its time which was the 90s. today with the advent of languages like c# and java however it's become obsolete.

>>48
If you don't like it fuck off

>>46
If C++ were as costly and broken as some would like you to believe, no business in its right mind would use it. Ever.
They don't. Any business that uses it isn't in its “right mind”.

COBOL is also quite prevalent in the market.

>>52
It's no longer as prevalent as Java (still not sure if this is a good thing)

>>53
(still not sure if this is a good thing)
You might want to actually use COBOL before saying such things.

>>54
>>53-san was merely saying that there are better options than Java to boot out COBOL, not that Java is worse than COBOL.

>>55
But Java is better than COBOL, and thus it would be silly of >>53-kun to complain.