The Sad Truth About C++ Copy Elision

Your point over indexes on the importance of new C++ developers. Anecdotes of what happens in college classes aren't really interesting. It's a language used as a backbone for trillions and trillions of dollars of revenue every year and it's prioritized for that.

I write C++ for a living and shipped a change to users numbered in the hundreds of millions last week. I don't care how many subtle rules I have to know, I'll do everything in my power to get it right to get the maximum result.

C++ is the current most popular language for experts writing expert code. It's not a language to be picked up by beginners to write GUIs with minimal effort.

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