When I see C++ code I mostly don't know what the fuck is going on. When I tried CSFML which is from a C++ libary SFML but for C it seriously lacked documentation at the point people had no choice but to read the header files themselves. What exactly is it that makes people like C++ over C, I often feel like it's just because of the fucking OOP support.
RAII, dynamic container classes, smart pointers, exceptions, the occasional template, and other certain features are amazing if you want to do certain things that are painful in C. To have code that approximates these things in C, you end up needing a bunch of ugly hacks and inserting calls to the reference count decrementers and incrementers every 5 lines.
If you have C++20 you can use concepts to create template with allowed list of types.
#include <iostream>
enum class Mask { A = 0x0, B = 0x1, C = 0x2, D = 0x4 };
enum class Mask2 { A = 0x0, B = 0x1, C = 0x2, D = 0x4 };
enum class Mask3 { A = 0x0, B = 0x1, C = 0x2, D = 0x4 };
template <typename T, typename... List>
concept AnyOf = (std::is_same_v<T, List> or ...);
template <typename T>
concept OverloadedMasks = AnyOf<T, Mask, Mask2>;
template <typename LHS, OverloadedMasks RHS> bool operator&(LHS lhs, RHS rhs) {
return lhs & (LHS)rhs;
}
int main() {
bool flag_1 = 2 & Mask::B;
bool flag_2 = 2 & Mask2::C;
bool flag_3 = 4 & Mask3::D; // <- Won't compile
std::cout << flag_1 << std::endl;
std::cout << flag_2 << std::endl;
std::cout << flag_3 << std::endl;
}
struct foo {
unsigned int e : 1;
unsigned int n : 1;
unsigned int d : 1;
};
struct bar {
unsigned int m : 1;
unsigned int e : 1;
unsigned int n : 1;
unsigned int o : 1;
unsigned int w : 1;
};essentially yes
this makes my undefined behavior 6th sense trigger for some reason
BASICI like to think I'm pretty knowledgeable with tech things, but I haven't had a chance to sit down and actually learn a programming language. Not a pajeet, promise
What would you say is the ideal language for getting the hang of how things generally work, programming wise?
I hate Python, but Python is probably a solid option considering availability of tutorials and libraries and projects to fuck around with.I like to think I'm pretty knowledgeable with tech things, but I haven't had a chance to sit down and actually learn a programming language. Not a pajeet, promise
What would you say is the ideal language for getting the hang of how things generally work, programming wise?
Got it, but why do you hate Python? Have heard it's one of the easiest languages to learn as there are tutorials/libs/projects like you said.
In my opinon: whitespace shouldn't have meaning. It's one of the few common languages* where that applies and likely causes negative transfer of learning. It is an easy language but I think it's less good as a stepping stone if you start with it. If all you're doing is Python then it's fine.
This, but if you're not fucking around with TI-BASIC 83 while failing 9th grade calculus you missed the boat.
And you do not put that shit on Makefiles. Makefiles have an elegant and easily parsed syntax wherein a \t delineates the rule from its execution. The reason for \t is because it is on a keyboard and it is not usually used in shell invocation. Python goes levels deep, and many characters match "whitespace".
Like @DavidS877 said, syntactically significant whitespace.
great opportunity to learn c and make something to embed lua into as you make things in lua, but this is more of an advanced project than a hello worldI like to recommend Lua, because it's so basic and simple (no syntactic sugar), but you need to have it embedded in something else to be useful, like the LOVE game engine or Roblox. On its own, it's not even useful as a scripting language, really
Haskell and then x86. The only correct answer when this question is asked here.
I can't say I agree but let's say I did agree. Even then the other main competitor for baby's first language would be JavaScript and I submit that JS will corrupt your mind far more than Python in that capacity.