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> At the same time, every feature that went into the language was vetted for being useful. It was deemed that without the said feature, the code was significantly worse

Talk about an appeal to authority!

Cppcon had an entire talk titled “The Nightmare of Initialization in C++”. C++ initialization is indeed a total clusterfuck. And that’s not a controversial statement!

I’m sure each thing was added to solve a problem. But now there are too many things, and that’s the new problem.



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