Seriously, are there anyone alive at this time who have a firm grasp on the totality of the latest C++ standards and the nuances thereof?
Very few… But it’s honestly OK, you don’t need to know everything to be a C++ dev. There’s a few key features and practices you can’t ignore, and the rest can be discovered by staying informed whenever you have time and by reading cppreference when you see things that are unfamiliar in the codebases you’re working on.
Of course. I’ve programmed in C++ for some twenty years at this point, and I’m still effectively writing C with classes (plus a few bits and bobs, as appropriate). I’m just at the point where I think this pig has so many layers of makeup applied that it’s starting to cake off in massive chunks.
Fair enough!
