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> you clearly want the answer to this question to be no

Uh yes. It’s phrased that way because it’s absurd. About half the comments in this section are a form of name calling by people who don’t understand constructors/destructors.

Those people who have no insight into how to make initialization better.

> Otherwise you risk becoming more and more irrelevant

Relevancy is relative to an audience. You want to listen to people who care and have your interests in mind.

C++ and Java are the most relevant languages in terms of professional software engineering.




You missed the forest for the trees. Since my claim is that

> people who care and have your interests in mind

that have valuable insights about the problems of the language and so understand constructors and destructors but don't make you susceptible to survivor bias are

>> especially people that stopped using the language.

People that don't want to learn the language in the first place offer a different kind of insight, insight into a world where constructors and destructors aren't needed.




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