Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

@aescling @vaporeon_ it was a pain in the ass to write and read but this is what industry standard c++ looks like

@aescling @vaporeon_ in C++ land you avoid this sort of thing with namespaces

In my work's C++ code everything, and I mean everything, was namespaced like nebula::ffph::doAlgo so that there were no namespace collisions

@vaporeon_ I am not a C expert by any means, but my exploration of C++ has taught me a few things. Header files in C++ have proven to be a headache in a lot of situations, and these are more or less fully inherited from C

Since you pull in everything present in a header file you pollute namespaces which can be a nightmare to manage in large projects

Plus header files induce some code repetition

For reasons I don't understand header files also make it difficult for C++ programs to compile quickly

@aescling its literally the first thing you hear from the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-g02aE1oh0

@vaporeon_ this doesn't count but still, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPKIo1xx3MU

@lapis a mystery, you say... 🔍 ​