>> Regarding love of complexity and C++, they’re sitting on the C++ committee. Complexity is their bread and butter. :)
Wow, I didn't know that, it explains a lot. There was a post on HN a while ago titled '“Modern” C++ Lamentations' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29898955). My eyes bleed when I see that "N Pythagorean triples" program in "C++". That's as close to classic C++ as Chinese is to Latin. And it's barely 10+ years since 2011. At this rate I don't even dare think what the "Modernest C++" of 2034 will look like, given the incentives the committee guys run on. If programming was done with pen and paper, I'd bet on making us stick a pen in our ass and write with that. Either way I'm expecting some equivalent proctology intervention needed to comply with the standard 10 years from now.
I'll say this because it needs to be said. Recently it seems like every developer on LinkedIn who has "C++" in their profile, and their cat, is spammed every couple of weeks by some recruiter with a "great opportunity, 130,000 euros FULLY REMOTE", turning out eventually to be recruiting for think-cell.
I got it, my friends got it, my work mates got it, everyone gets spammed periodically, it has become the laughingstock of job ads.
Why? Read the Glassdoor reviews. The CTO is a terrorist obsessed with complexity, they overengineered themselves into a corner by using every freaking C++ feature that ever existed, making sure that there's only 3 or 4 people in this world who can understand their code. Of course the usual pattern goes: guy learns #feature on-the-fly appearing both incredibly smart and embelishing his resume, until of course reality hits and the complexity of the crap he wrote outclasses his "genius" intellectual capacity so then he leaves, leaving the mess for future hires to deal with.
Consequently there's maybe 3 people left in this world capable to understand the atrocity that's running there, not saying fix it. So good luck finding them. These people, if they exist, already work for more that $130k.
Also, why do they need the absolute raging brinking edge of C++ features? What does this company do? Trillion dollar ultra low latency / high throughput high frequency trading? AAA+ games running on 4 x 4k monitors at 200+ fps?
Wow, I didn't know that, it explains a lot. There was a post on HN a while ago titled '“Modern” C++ Lamentations' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29898955). My eyes bleed when I see that "N Pythagorean triples" program in "C++". That's as close to classic C++ as Chinese is to Latin. And it's barely 10+ years since 2011. At this rate I don't even dare think what the "Modernest C++" of 2034 will look like, given the incentives the committee guys run on. If programming was done with pen and paper, I'd bet on making us stick a pen in our ass and write with that. Either way I'm expecting some equivalent proctology intervention needed to comply with the standard 10 years from now.