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> Safe C++ will probably be too unpopular to make it into the spec. Not just that, but the committee accepted a paper that basically says it's design is agains
by steveklabnik 1y ago
> Safe C++ will probably be too unpopular to make it into the spec.
Not just that, but the committee accepted a paper that basically says it's design is against C++'s design principles, so it's effectively dead forever.
- tialaramex 1y agoThis was adopted as standing document SD-10 https://isocpp.org/std/standing-documents/sd-10-language-evolution-principles https://isocpp.org/std/standing-documents/sd-10-language-evo... Here's somebody who was in the room explaining how this was agreed as standing policy for the C++ programming language. "It was literally the last paper. Seen at the last hour. Of a really long week. Most everyone was elsewhere in other working group meetings assuming no meaningful work was going to happen."