"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
-- Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++
@fribbledom Which is pretty much just C.
You should see the development times with C projects vs C++ projects. C programming takes less time to get things done than C++ programming does on average.
It is not intuitive, but engineers only need 1 or 2 simple ways to make a piece of hardware do things in the first place.
In embedded systems, about 70% of the programming share is still C as of 2018.
@jmw150 @fribbledom My memory of C++ when it /first/ came out was that it was fabulous for prototyping -- and the STL had some awesome / welcome components (strings, linked list abstractions, etc.) -- but it could not move like C could. That said, it was still largely a C pre-processor at the time. I presume it's improved since then?
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Yeah. It is really fancy now. The language is huge.
Also C has evolved away from it. So it is no longer a C superset.
