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The Day The Standard Library Died (2020)
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- jtaft 4y agoPlease rename the submission’s title. The above sentence was mentioned in the article (without supporting evidence), and is not the focus of the article. Tldr of article; abi was chosen not to be broken, which is costing performance. Author argues if std library isn’t optimized, alternatives will keep being developed, and std will be considered dead.
- dang 4y agoSubmitted title was "it is currently faster to launch PHP to execute a regex than using std::regex" but the submitter has since fixed it.
- Operyl 4y agoEditorialized title, please keep the original titles!
- dang 4y agoFixed now. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31792578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31792578
- Dylan16807 4y agoI don't think there's anything wrong with trying to link to a specific part of an article, though. And in that context I wouldn't really call it editorializing. URLs make this harder than it should be.
- Operyl 4y agoIn the case of HN, it’s explicitly against submission guidelines and frowned upon.
- Dylan16807 4y ago"Editorializing" is against the guidelines. Trying to submit a subsection of a bigger work, with the closest it has to a title, is perfectly acceptable... if it has its own URL. If it doesn't have a URL, then you're screwed. One of the few benefits of tweet threads: you can link a particular tweet.
- Operyl 4y agoI think we might be confused, originally the title was not “ The Day The Standard Library Died” on HN. dang changed it back to that title. It was a completely different title, submitted originally: “ "It is currently faster to launch PHP to execute a regex than using std:regex"” which is what I’m saying was editorialized.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThe title was a direct quote pointing to a specific part of the article. If the article had been a series of tweets, they could have linked to that tweet and it would have been fine and not been editorializing. That's why I'm iffy on calling it editorializing. Even if it is, I blame URLs for not allowing the equivalent of linking a specific tweet from a series. It's especially bad when there's a news roundup article talking about 3 or 4 different things, and you can't just submit the third one with the title of that section.
- schemescape 4y agoThis seems to be an article about how ABI compatibility makes improving C++ more difficult. The submission title is currently "It is currently faster to launch PHP to execute a regex than using std:regex", and, while the article makes this claim, it doesn't provide any evidence for this. Maybe it's true, but that's not the point of the article (and I really doubt it's true in most cases--just the overhead of starting a new process and communicating back and forth is significant). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- tedunangst 4y agoWhere's the benchmark?
- rurban 4y agoPosted now the fifth time, see [past]