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Google isn't some grand authority. It's an old, tired and dysfunctional legacy IT company, like IBM or Oracle.
by otabdeveloper4 4y ago
Google isn't some grand authority. It's an old, tired and dysfunctional legacy IT company, like IBM or Oracle.
- smt88 4y agoThey aren't a grand authority, but they maintain a huge amount of C++ code
- mempko 4y agoC++ code using their flavor of strange guidelines... Google C++ is not how the rest of the world writes C++.
- bfrog 4y agoRight, every org and individual has their own subset of c++ they use and exclude. C++ may have standards but that hardly matters when projects/orgs/individuals have their own variant of the language that is used. It’s a fallacy to think that there’s some idiomatic C++, there isn’t in practice.
- deviantbit 4y agoNot more than Microsoft.
- smt88 4y agoMicrosoft has also officially and unofficially started replacing C++ with Rust.
- pjmlp 4y agoSo far it looks like experiments, besides a few projects like Azure Sphere SDK, Azure IoT (C# and Rust), and Rust/WinRT (which is even worse than C++/WinRT in regards to tooling in its current state, no authoring support for COM or VS integration). Office and Windows teams love C++ and COM too much to use anything else.
- CoastalCoder 4y ago> Google isn't some grand authority. Agreed, but collaborative efforts like C++ language steering, Clang development, etc. can benefit from a large pool of contributors. So IMHO, Google reducing investmentin Clang could be a net loss for most Clang users.