Not so many reasons Why C++ sucks..

Coded in C++ for 5 years so would apologize in advance. But this is just my opinion. Do I want to start a language war? You bet.

– Pointers suck
– Memory management sucks
– Function Pointers yeah they do
– goto statements sucks
– Friend Functions sucks
– static initialization sucks

– Macros Suck
– headers files sucks? If you don’t know then don’t bother..you can live without knowing them
– Multiple Inheritance sucks
– Diamonds suck
– Interfaces? Sorry C++ doesn’t have them so they can’t…
– reinterpret_cast I think they do suck
– Compilation suck
– Makefile suck


– Threading? sorry what? oh yeah use PThreads or boost..What is boost? some other day man..long story

– Templates? so complex they deserve 10 posts like this as they just don’t suck they suck bigtime.You think you know them? solve a simple puzzle and see if you knew the answer already

C++ Inheritance Puzzle

Did I mention it was a simple one..people interested in knowing them in detail read
alexandrescu modern design

Correction – By the way C++ did get great support for threads now simplifies the job so much
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread  Boy, I love this language

Published by Marut Singh

Welcome to my blog. I am software architect, mentor, corporate trainer. Developing software for last 15 years in various domains..I work in different stacks and software architecture is my area of speciality..worked in c++, java, c#, scala, play vert.x, spring, nosql blah blah blah. And offcourse cloud technologies. Software Engineer cant imagine life without cloud :-) Always exploring new languages and tools to make sure that I do not loose touch, to ensure that I delivery high quality software in reasonable cost at all times. Love TDD, BDD, Agile and more than anything simplicity.. Normally I am very helpful so if you need some help do get in touch.

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