Modern C++ is safe

Deal with it, faggots. Mobile and server platforms are the future. We need to do more with less hardware. C++11 is efficient--and just as easy to write as other modern languages. C# is the way to go for general purpose desktop application programming.

Enjoy your shitty Lisp, C, Haskell, and generally trying to look hardcore, though.

>>39
C and C++ are not significantly faster than other compiled languages like D, Delphi or Ada

Yes, it is, because there are more mature optimizing compilers for C and C++ than for any of those shitty languages. And C++ is a modern and widely used language. It will be the primary interface to WinRT.

>>30
I care a great deal about what programming language people use.  There's a good chance someone like me (a good programmer) will end up maintaining the horse shit that you (a bad programmer) wrote.  So knock it off with the fucking Java and C# and learn how to write code.

>>41
because there are more mature optimizing compilers for C and C++ than for any of those shitty languages.
thats a piss poor excuse for using a language, just because more compilers are made for a language, that is no reason to use that language. If people used the best language instead of the most popular languages, commercial software wouldnt be so bug ridden and crash prone as it is now.

>>41

and explain to me why I cannot leverage all of those compilers for C and C++ by writing a compiler that compiles language X to C?

>>44
you have no idea what youre talking about, Im not even going to explain why thats so stupid because /prog/ is getting a retard overload and Im tired of teaching CS preschool

>>45

we get it you are tired of being called out. Get used to it. It's really not that big of a deal.

There are times where compilation to C isn't ideal. One example is getting tail recursion. You can't just use conventional c function calling if you want guaranteed tail recursion, when it is not known which back end standard compliant c compiler is used for the second compilation.

But it can be a very good choice for high performance, portability, and even incorporating with other projects written in C. It opens up a lot of possibilities.

>>45
lol

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