Why C++ is not my favourite language

I guess he's not a systems programmer. What language did Slava Pestov turn to when he recently re-wrote Factor's VM?<p>C++ programmers: we do the dirty work so you don't have to.

That's really cool that this guy thinks dynamic languages have the potential to be faster than C++. Maybe he can write a second article when they are actually faster, with some properly done benchmarks or some valid technical examples.

The canonical anti-C++ link for me has to be <a href="http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/" rel="nofollow">http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/</a> - pretty thorough and reasonably well argued.

From my perspective, most of the stuff about C++ complexity rings untrue. Most people I know seem to know enough about C++ that they can produce pretty good code.<p>Yes, there's a lot of depth to C++ but you derive a lot of benefit from other's wizardry even if you're not a magician yourself.<p>Maybe this guy didn't invest as much time on C++ as he did on his other languages.

I sympathize with the author's dislike for C++ and while you can't argue that dynamic languages "could" at some point in the future be faster than C++, it's very unlikely to happen since one of the requirements for this kind of speed is for a language to be statically typed. Without type information, the compiler is left with very few options to optimize the generated code.