• space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    From what I’ve heard from Google employees Google is really stringent with their coding standards and they usually limit what you can do with the language. Like for C++ they don’t even use half the fancy features C++ offers you because it’s hard to reason about them.

    I guess that policy makes sense but I feel like it takes out all the fun out of the job.

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      1 year ago

      Just about any place I know that uses C++ also does that with C++ so that’s nothing unusual for C++ specifically. It’s too big of a language to reason about very well if you don’t, so you’ve gotta find a subset that works.

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        Too many patterns. If you do not do this every author will have a different use of the language and you will have to read a book of documentation each time you change files.