I generally try to use C++ as a "better C" before the design complexity makes me model higher-level abstractions "the C++ way". All abstractions have a cognitive cost and C makes it simpler and explicit.
Personally, I tried that, but it already breaks down for me, once I try to separate allocation from initialization, so I am back to C really quickly. And then I want to take the address from temporaries or create types in function declarations, and C++ is just declares that to be not allowed.
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Agreed.
I generally try to use C++ as a "better C" before the design complexity makes me model higher-level abstractions "the C++ way". All abstractions have a cognitive cost and C makes it simpler and explicit.
Personally, I tried that, but it already breaks down for me, once I try to separate allocation from initialization, so I am back to C really quickly. And then I want to take the address from temporaries or create types in function declarations, and C++ is just declares that to be not allowed.