New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Adoption of 'modern' C++ in physics/astro community
Ask HN: Adoption of 'modern' C++ in physics/astro community
3 by beezle | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Long time away. Broadly speaking, looking to get current for computational physics. My Fortran is reasonable and likely easy to refresh, but I was never big into C (and less C++) so that requires a fresh start. I know adoption of new language features (let alone entire languages) can be glacial in many fields of physics and engineering. Where is the most reasonable point to start in C++? Is C++11 the sweet spot? Is most new code gravitating to at least that revision? Have legacy code bases been refactored and would going with C+11 hinder understanding of any that have not?
3 by beezle | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Long time away. Broadly speaking, looking to get current for computational physics. My Fortran is reasonable and likely easy to refresh, but I was never big into C (and less C++) so that requires a fresh start. I know adoption of new language features (let alone entire languages) can be glacial in many fields of physics and engineering. Where is the most reasonable point to start in C++? Is C++11 the sweet spot? Is most new code gravitating to at least that revision? Have legacy code bases been refactored and would going with C+11 hinder understanding of any that have not?
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