Comment Re:Pretty weak (Score 1) 386
Yup. Those arguments seem pretty weak to me. Both inheritance and exceptions are a total crapshoot in C++ (among other so-called features). Any change to those parts of C++ can only be a positive, including completely removing them from the language spec.
Just from TFS, it sounds like somebody who's only dabbled with C++ or maybe even Java and not C++ at all. Like somebody else posted above, whoever says C/C++ most likely knows neither language well, if at all.
I haven't looked at Rust at all, but if it's strictly C with classes and better memory management, it's worth looking into. It doesn't even need templates (which is often another big no-no in production engineering shops along with exceptions). All that's missing from C is good class syntax and maybe a better way to do function pointers, and it's about as good a language for both high and low level programming as you're gonna get. Though if anything, the biggest (fundamental) problem with C is the assignment operator. They should've gone with the Ada