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The scope is just to provide a way to write cross-platform path manipulation code. C++ is a much more stable (for better or for worse) language than Java is. Fi
by roel_v 12y ago
The scope is just to provide a way to write cross-platform path manipulation code. C++ is a much more stable (for better or for worse) language than Java is. Filesystem has been developed for 10+ years, and now that the current version works well, it's promoted to the standard. Whoever will want to write virtual file systems isn't going to bother with std::filesystem anyway.
- sedeki 12y agoNewbie here. Just curious, why wouldn't someone use std::filesystem to write virtual file systems?
- roel_v 12y agoNot sure I understand the question - std::filesystem is 'just' a (mostly) cross-platform abstraction of files and directories, it doesn't know or deal with the concept of 'filesystem'. (maybe the problem is in terminology - 'filesystem' in std::filesystem doesn't have anything to do with 'filesystem' as in ext4, zfs etc.)