Hi, I used C++ in the past to write a small game. My experience was that the compilation was quite slow and many compiler errors were hard to understand. I love the fact the CPython is written in C because its build time is under one minute for a fresh build, and way faster for an incremental build (modifying a single C file). I'm part of the "trial-and-error" church. I modify random parts of the C code, build, test and repeat until it works as I want ;-) A *fresh* build (after make clean) of CPython on my laptop (8 threads, 4 CPU cores) takes 13 seconds using make -j10 and gcc -O0. A fresh build in release mode (make -j10 and gcc -O3) takes 44 seconds on the same laptop. CPython is made of around 500K lines of C code. Victor On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 7:19 PM <redradist@gmail.com> wrote:
The benefits:
1. You will link with high quality libstdc++ with lots of reusable containers without writing your own "buggy" one. 2. C++ is much much more maintainable than pure C. It drastically increase number of contributors that what like writing high quality and maintainable code without reinventing the wheel.
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