Suppose c++ is around for 100 more years (i'll take the over). Sacrificing a cou...

int_19h · 2025-01-24T22:30:42 1737757842

Yeah, but then look at C++ - does the syntax really look like it's "just right" to you? Modern JS features actually tend to have cleaner syntax, generally speaking.

mkoubaa · 2025-01-25T00:26:03 1737764763

You make a great point. It was a good intention that led to a bad outcome. Many such cases

wakawaka28 · 2025-01-25T01:32:47 1737768767

Modern JS or any JS is such a different language with not even a tenth of the features that C++ has, it's ridiculous to compare them. It's no wonder it looks "cleaner" -- it just isn't doing anything like what C++ does.

int_19h · 2025-01-26T05:31:54 1737869514

We're talking about syntax, not semantics, so I don't see how it matters.

wakawaka28 · 2025-01-26T17:03:30 1737911010

You can't express more semantics without more syntax. So the "clean" JS is not burdened by the extra semantics that C++ must account for.

suby · 2025-01-26T21:47:16 1737928036

I'm not sure that this is true. Let's take a look at generics. In C++, we use angled brackets like myFunction<SomeType>();

This could however be done without introducing angled brackets. myFunction(myFirstClassType); which is what more and more languages nowadays do like Zig.