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Can you elaborate on "what Google has been doing to C++"? Google has a couple of members on C++ working groups including WG21 but I'm not even remotely under th
by eklitzke 5y ago
Can you elaborate on "what Google has been doing to C++"? Google has a couple of members on C++ working groups including WG21 but I'm not even remotely under the impression that C++ governance is controlled by Google.
- ncmncm 5y agoGoogle has many more than a "couple of" employees participating in WG21 working groups. Most of what they do is helpful, but they are difficult to oppose.
- brandmeyer 5y agoThe "Goals and Priorities for C++" document P2137 felt like an open declaration of war by GOOG and NVDA.
- dmix 5y agohttp://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2137r0.html http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p213...
- cyber_kinetist 5y agoI mean, their goals seem very understandable given the current abysmal status of C++ (with regards to insane language complexity, historical cruft, and ergonomic issues like compile times and build systems). My only skepticism is that the thing they want might be better achieved by making a fork of C++, since there are just too many things to rip out of and replace. (Ideally something which can easily interoperate with existing C++ code, but make some huge breaking changes that simplifies and streamlines the language).
- brandmeyer 5y agoIts the list of non-goals that just so happen to be features that I rely on for my livelihood that drive my reaction.