Reply to post: Re: Something C++ can do that Rust can't..ha.ha

Rust is eating into our systems, and it's a good thing

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Re: Something C++ can do that Rust can't..ha.ha

..properly modularising ...

I'd guess you have not worked on very many very large commercial application code bases then.

Some of the better ones actually have a kinda logically organizer source tree. Sort of. Dont have enormous numbers of globals which cause weird unrelated code interdependencies. Hell, I'm happy if i can edit a single source file and it does not cause a global recompile. You think I'm joking?...

Here's an example. And its one of the cleaner application codebase I've seen. Go grab the Chrome browser source code. All of it. Now try to get it to build. All of it. Read all those build instructions carefully. Several times Now try to get it to build. Now find the code for a nice simple feature to modify. Try to work out how to modify it. Watch what gets rebuilt. Go off and have lunch. Have a coffee. Read a short novel.

And thats one of the saner codebases. You should see whats inside the codebases that never see the public gaze.

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