On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 12:46:49AM -0400, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
While I would agree with your other points. The problem is you have two choices either a) people have to learn a newer way of doing OO or b) keep doing the same thing for the most part. Unfortunately, when designing a new language you kinda have the advantage of being more popular if you do a). Granted one thing that is much better about C++ is templates and now concepts are expanded at compile time in Java it seems that generics aren't. This can run into a runtime penalty, through C++ has the issue with try and catch which is a problem in the embedded or real time world. I would through not that I like C++'s OO if you've used C++20 considering some of it's changes like concepts.
The state of C++ today is not what it was when Java arrived. There were no templates, namespaces or STL. Just a language somewhat based on C with a bad class inheritance design. C++ has improved quite a lot, especially in the last decade. If I had my way, functional languages would be what is used, and definitely not any that were object oriented, at least not in the way C++ and Java are. Multiple inheritance should not exist. -- Len Sorensen