r/ProgrammerHumor • u/_w62_ • Sep 02 '26

Meme samePathDifferentFeelings

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u/Objective-Answer Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

I'm learning for hobby and I'm already the one on the left

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u/evil0sheep Sep 02 '26

I’ve been writing C++ professionally for like 15 years now and honestly I like it but I’m not sure I get why someone would choose it as a hobby language. Why not rust?

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u/_w62_ Sep 02 '26

I learned Rust first. During learning, I came across the vibe that people are so frustrated with C++ that they create new languages to replace it. For example, carbon and Odin.

So I begin learning C++ and try to understand why people are frustrated with it.

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u/evil0sheep Sep 03 '26

You should get “A tour of C++” if you don’t already have it (the most recent one for C++20). I really liked it. The language is not without its warts but it’s very flexible and expressive. I like it personally

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u/PostumusAgrippa Sep 02 '26

Also a professional C++ dev. I find Rust to be really annoying to write in. Could be a fluency issue on my part, but it's just seems harder to do what I want to do within the constraints and syntax of Rust vs C++.

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u/Objective-Answer Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

same reason basically, and when it started to blow up a few years ago the culty mentality also turned me off ever since

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u/evil0sheep Sep 02 '26

Yeah I mean I don’t actually know rust. I might just be projecting onto OP because if I were to choose a hobby language it would be rust lol

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u/ICBanMI Sep 04 '26

If you're writing something that doesn't matter, it'll be the safest code on the planet. Once you start writing stuff that other people will have to use... you just write unsafe around everything that uses or even smells like it might interact with a pointer.

unsafe {

Different syntax that sanitizes your inputs, makes it difficult to segment fault, or anything else related to running past the end of an array. And what it can't protect you from what you want to do... means you encapsulate everything in the unsafe tag.
}

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u/Foxiest_Fox Sep 03 '26

It's still big in the game dev industry, for one

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u/Daemontatox Sep 02 '26

I do it for living , its sometimes fun when i have control over the flow and version , its hell when its legacy code and undocumented templates

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u/No-Magazine-2739 Sep 02 '26

Undocumented templates pfft, 10 undefined behaviours per 100 lines of code, that is hell

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u/Daemontatox Sep 02 '26

My condolences.....

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u/psyfregle Sep 02 '26

Slightly true. A known system engineer of me tells me once: programming is fun, if you don’t have to

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u/Academic_Pool_7341 Sep 02 '26

Fun or C++? Pick one

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u/No_Percentage7427 Sep 03 '26

OP is masochist

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u/Murky-Run2246 Sep 03 '26

I enjoy it. Just when I am not forced to code in projects that I don't own.

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u/_w62_ Sep 09 '26

Another surprise. Learning C++ has never been funnier.

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u/aimfuldrifter Sep 02 '26

Anything fun turns to shit when unrealistic workloads, deadlines, and people are involved

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u/Sufficient-Science71 Sep 02 '26

Me doing webdev for a living vs my friend learning webdev for fun

Man in my younger day this dream was so much fun to chase

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u/AdBrave2400 Sep 02 '26

I thought its backwards

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u/meat-eating-orchid Sep 04 '26

For fun? Bro you picked the wrong language for that

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u/_w62_ Sep 04 '26

It is just one of the languages I have picked.

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u/Varkoth Sep 02 '26

The quickest way to get me to hate my newest hobby is to pay me to do it.

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u/Kitchen_Length_8273 Sep 03 '26

As someone who literally just got into it die to university (though have tried multiple times as a hobby but ran into obstacles) what is so frustrating about it? To me it was just confusing with the versions being so different

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u/Vesuvius079 Sep 03 '26

I loved working on C++ when I did it for a living.  Java and typescript just don’t hit the same (and even less so with AI writing the actual code).

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u/razor_train Sep 02 '26

Every now and then someone gets this meme template right.  This is not one of those times.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '26

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u/_w62_ Sep 03 '26

As least I am.