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0 pointsjacoblambda1y ago0 comments

You can still enforce a style guide and limit certain constructs via code review.

Plenty of the modern C++ people already do this by enforcing things like "no raw loops", "no raw pointers", or "no raw synchronization primitives" during code review.

The issue is that it's a lot harder to justify avoiding new features than it is to justify avoiding old features unless you have a tooling specific reason (ex lack of support) to do so.

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bluGill1y ago

> during code review.

There is the problem - code reviews are done by humans and so it is really easy to read some code and not think "wait this is new code it can't do that anymore". I read a lot of old code as part of my job and it often isn't worth the bother to update working code to new standards.

> it's a lot harder to justify avoiding new features than it is to justify avoiding old features

The problem is the opposite - people keep using old features when the new is better. I realize not everything new is better, but most of them are, yet people keep refusing to learn and use the new thing without good justification.

jacoblambdaOP1y ago

> The problem is the opposite - people keep using old features when the new is better. I realize not everything new is better, but most of them are, yet people keep refusing to learn and use the new thing without good justification.

I think we are saying the same thing here. Often the new is better so it's hard to really justify sticking to the old outside of project specific reasons (i.e. toolchain doesn't support new std). That people do it has less to do with justification and more to do with time commitment or laziness and the excuses given tend to fall away once pressed.

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