The C++ philosophy is not about protecting you from yourself. Its about allowing you to express your idea in as low or high level terms as you require. This lets you write a highly optimized tight loop and then abstractly describe less performance sensitive parts.
In the past it was thought that people would use safer high level languages and then drop down to C for performance. That vision just doesn’t seem to work out in practice - except at the cross process level.
The trade off to this is language complexity. If you want a simple language C++ isn’t for you - and that’s OK.
In the past it was thought that people would use safer high level languages and then drop down to C for performance. That vision just doesn’t seem to work out in practice - except at the cross process level.
The trade off to this is language complexity. If you want a simple language C++ isn’t for you - and that’s OK.