What gets me about MOST of the stuff I read on criticising c++ is the complete disregard for runtime performance. I write software that has to consume billions of messages a day per instance. I've done it in several languages for different purposes. At the end of the day if you implement the same algorithm in c++ it will be faster. I don't care what you think you can do in node.js, but you are wrong. When you have limited resources there is no option save for c and c++. It isn't a big deal, that is currently how we get things done.
People fucking around with distributed web applications are so immune from the specific cost of adding a line of code because rarely is what they are writing executed repeatedly in a tight loop and thus they lose the ability to quickly measure performance impact
People fucking around with distributed web applications are so immune from the specific cost of adding a line of code because rarely is what they are writing executed repeatedly in a tight loop and thus they lose the ability to quickly measure performance impact