Stop Trying To Kill Me

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Stop Trying To Kill Me

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The funeral for C/C++ has been announced prematurely for decades now. Every few years, some shiny new language comes along and declares itself the "C++ killer" while C++ just smirks from its grave and continues powering literally everything from operating systems to game engines.

Meanwhile, C/C++ developers are just chilling next to their own tombstone like "Oh no... anyway" while counting the performance gains their manual memory management provides. The language might be older than most developers using it, but it refuses to die with the stubbornness of that one legacy codebase no one wants to refactor.

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