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I'm sorry to hear that you haven't been successful in using C++ features to their full potential in environments tightled coupled with C libraries. Integration
by mgaunard 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear that you haven't been successful in using C++ features to their full potential in environments tightled coupled with C libraries. Integration with C or C-like code usually requires some effort if you want to be able to use exceptions that could propagate through C.
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- Yoric 4y agoThanks. Do you think they'll have time to rewrite Firefox? :) (or Chrome, which encounters the same issues)
- moloch-hai 4y agoMaybe switch to the SerenityOS browser.
- Yoric 4y agoI'll be sure to suggest that to Mozilla and Google :)
- mgaunard 4y agoWell, from what you were saying, it's mostly a problem of making your asynchronous framework work well with exceptions. It is true that you need to do special things for asynchronous programming to work well in C++, be it for exceptions or even the scope-bound lifetime management of C++ in general, which all have a huge impact on the design of your system. In particular most multi-threaded C++ code is incorrect, not because it is impossible to do it correctly, but because the standard tooling is too low-level, each third-party framework targets a different niche, and people who roll their own tend to hack it together. I understand Seastar is supposed to do it somewhat correctly, so you could suggest to Mozilla that they switch to that.