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> ...C++ committee's ignorance towards practical concerns such as debug build performance, error messages, build times... These practical concerns have no plac

• higerordermap 6y ago
  > Do you know what standard committee's purpose is? Writing and selling more books. All these are affected by evolution of the language. As the standards committee pushes more and more multi-layer templated library features as modern best practices, debug times suffer, error messages suffer, compile times suffer. The C++ committee doesn't look at prior art in academic literature[0], they don't even consider many implementation concerns which only become apparent after implementations are widely used in real world. The gap between language designers and implementers is obvious. There are C++ apologists who claim it is because of legacy. Yeah but I won't be buying those books every three years until they half-fix every misfeature in half broken template library way.