Anti-C++ Hipsters

People who hate C++ are only doing so because it's hip and cool to hate on something that seems too complex at first glance. You want to be seen as cool and edgy, as someone who goes against the grain, when in reality you're just another annoying undergraduate that will probably have a hard time finding a job in the field.

C++ is not perfect, but no language is. Get over it.

>>61
"type safety" as it is commonly used, is a spectrum, not an all or nothing thing. the more contexts and cases a language exhibits type safety, the more type safe it is. java is more type safe than most scripting languages and also lower level languages like C.

>>63
some projects are just large no matter how you code them. there are plenty i have to deal with at work. and once you are over say 10000 lines of code, no matter what language, you start needing to find references to variables in files you didn't even know about. a scripting language isn't going to magically turn 100k line project into 3k lines of code. that type of reduction is not possible, unless the project was coded in an especially asinine way.

i agree that performance is not always an issue, especially in DB limited applications. however, performance often IS an issue. users do not like slow. and a project that starts and ends in the same language is easier to maintain than one that uses two or more languages.

>>60
yes of course. java is fine but javascript sucks for the same reason that most scripting languages do.

>>59
i have no idea what you're getting at.