> It used to be a pragmatic extension to C, now it's about trend-chasing. no, it's about maximizing performance, because C++ libs are what countless software b

> It used to be a pragmatic extension to C, now it's about trend-chasing. no, it's about maximizing performance, because C++ libs are what countless software build upon. Maybe someone will want to use this to display a 4*4k mural screen with 2000000 of those displayed and changing in real-time. Just using a <map> instead of a hash-container (there's a compile-time one just on top of HN right now which would fit the bill perfectly since these are known at compile time) is already a fairly big smell.