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0 pointsokanat1y ago0 comments

I think the bureaucratic cadence of the things also make C++ not a unified entity. C++ is patchwork language. So many of the new features don't work well together or don't fit together or they have conflicting goals.

Since the proposals target problems with differing philosophies, they each have different traps in them from bad time complexity to outright unrefined behavior. Keeping up with the updates hard because of this.

I think many C++ projects are (or will be) basically infeasible to maintain not because of the old problems but due to the exploding complexity of the interactions of all features, unless developers actively ban using large parts of the language.

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CuriousCosmic1y ago

> C++ is patchwork language. So many of the new features don't work well together or don't fit together or they have conflicting goals.

I don't really see this as true. In my experience most C++ features actually "just work" together and there are relatively few footguns involved in mixing features.

And it's less that C++ is a patchwork language and more that it is multi-paradigm and multi-discipline. Some features have specific applications and they get used inappropriately but in my experience that is solved with a quick reference/citation of the standard during code review or in a new ticket.

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CuriousCosmic1y ago

> C++ is patchwork language. So many of the new features don't work well together or don't fit together or they have conflicting goals.

I don't really see this as true. In my experience most C++ features actually "just work" together and there are relatively few footguns involved in mixing features.

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