I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize
consteval.ca
It has been three days. The room is cold and dark, but your screens are blinding. You feel disoriented as you come in and out of dissociative episodes. Now and again, you laugh, to no accompaniment. Why are you here? Was this your fault?

(the joke is C++)

  • Redkey@programming.dev
    121·
    6 months ago

    Did you read all the way to the end of the article? I did.

    At the very bottom of the piece, I found that the author had already expressed what I wanted to say quite well:

    In my humble opinion, here’s the key takeaway: just write your own fucking constructors! You see all that nonsense? Almost completely avoidable if you had just written your own fucking constructors. Don’t let the compiler figure it out for you. You’re the one in control here.

    The joke here isn’t C++. The joke is people who expect C++ to be as warm, fuzzy, and forgiving as JavaScript.

  • xmunk
    4·
    6 months ago

    The other joke is a reference to Ellison’s story, in case it wooshed.