realization

[r_transpose_p]

So after working on a simulation platform for my robots in Java for some time, and having done large projects in C++, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that "Java is not significantly easier than C++"

Some caveats :

1. I am comparing templatized C++ with STL and Boost to Java with Generics. Day to day use of either language changes radically if

Comments

[skamille]

Yeah, you're just wrong on this one.

[r_transpose_p]

Give me pointers (no pun intended). I may very well be doing something wrong, or missing major uses for language features.

[skamille]

Compiling, deploying, debugging. IDEs. Refactoring. Can you go into your running C++ code, stop it at a breakpoint, make a change to it and have it hot-swap into the running code? (I actually don't know, maybe you can? Seems like the kind of thing you need a VM for though).

[soong]

Apple's C++ IDE has the ability to patch running code. That was a new feature a bit over a year ago I think. Sun had it 10 years ago (if you wanted to pay $n000 per seat).

[r_transpose_p]

Not very well, which is probably why I avoid trying this with eclipse.

[r_transpose_p]

Wait, tell me more about this "refactoring" as I desperately need to do it on a codebase of mine.

Are you thinking of IDE-specific stuff? I use Eclipse. (I can't remember, that may have been your suggestion in the first place)