{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:49:13.524Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story":{"id":50423371,"type":"story","title":"Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?","url":null,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50423371","hackerhub_url":"https://hackerhub.site/stories/50423371","author":"hasley","points":60,"comments_count":89,"created_at":"2026-11-09T09:50:03.000Z","average_comments_per_hour":1.0989518921258312,"heat":null,"text":"In the recent years C++ received a lot of backlash due to its complexity and (perceived) feature creep. However, since C++11 I really enjoyed writing C++ with its strict type system (including const), range-based for loops, smart pointers, and how much you can do with templates. On the other hand, I know that it can be very tricky to write, for instance, a correct iterator, to get handling of rvalue references right, or to read error messages that involve templates.\nSo, do you enjoy or dislike writing C++ source code and why?"},"heat_definition":"Average comments per hour since posting, using a minimum age of 30 minutes. A single story has no relative colour rank."}