alt Hacker NewsA better C++ is by definition a better C, no one should be using C in 21st century beyond UNIX clones, and embedded devs that are religiously against C++, even all modern C compilers are written in C++ nowadays.
Anything you can think C is better, it isn't ISO C, rather non standard C compiler specific extensions, which can language can also be.
Just do like in K&R C days, use Assembly for what language isn't directly capable of, and it is right there as part of a regular Go toolchain installation.
> A better C++ is by definition a better C
The definition is wrong, then.
I wrote C++ for most of my career. And as of late, I found myself avoiding more and more features from it. The STL is mostly trash, not worth the increase in compilation times. Templates are good for containers, but that’s about it. Inheritance and polymorphism are circumstantial enough that I’m not sure they’re worth adding to the language: in the rare cases I do need them, I can always write my v-table by hand.
The more I write C++, the more I find C is not that far from that "much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out". And I say that fully aware of the many egregious faults still present in C.
There are two features from C++ I would really miss in a big C project: generics (templates), and destructors. But then we can always write a lightweight pre-processor to add those generics and a `defer` statement. Even if it requires a full parser, C parsers are pretty easy to write.