Have been a Java developer all my career. Cleared HC, T5, all the teams I spoke with work on C++. How difficult is the transition? Is it worth it? How is it different in google?
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Basically understanding low level primitive and exclusively working with them are different.
My rule of thumb: if you are worrying about memory pressure and figuring out when to invoke GC, you really should be managing your own memory. Life will be simpler and more predictable if you do core Mem MGMT in c++
It was fine. Yeah I spent a few days debugging a segfault caused by storing a pointer to a vector element, but overall there was little practical difference.