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It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by danhab99@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I may have missed the joke but C++ doesn't have built in garbage collector. Even recent versions of the standard merely allow it but don't specify it is required.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

People have written garbage collectors for C++, but just about no one used the standard library support that was in the standard.