humanrebar

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by humanrebar 2y ago
This is true. That is why there is no leadership committee for the C++ ecosystem. There is no way to select one.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
The C++ profiles proposal is something like an "editions lite". It could evolve into more fully featured editions some day, though not without some significant tooling work to support prevention of severe memory and type safety is
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Googletest is the most widely used test library for C++. Googlemock is the only mocking library available that's reasonably feature complete.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
You can implement that in C++ code, no language extensions required, by using type erasure and a pointer semantic type with at least one constructor templated on the type of the object being pointed to.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
All the more reason not to overshare.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
This is really counterproductive policing. Seems like the big lesson the mother should take is about discussing her parenting with a police officer.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Housing isn't any cheaper. Basics like groceries aren't either. If someone is struggling to own a clean and safe home, pointing at averages isn't convincing. Many people don't trust that math.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
A better argument against chicken breast is that the commercial chickens have been selectively bred, fed, and treated with not-found-in-nature medicines to the point that they don't resemble a "natural" ingredient anymore. Th
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by humanrebar 2y ago
> IIRC Clang implements a C++ style auto, while GCC implements a C style auto, which has subtle differences for 'auto pointers' - not sure if those differences have been fixed in the meantime Both have compatibly implemented th
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Or taken to an extreme, it's not hard to compose clang-queries that find for any arbitrary syntax. You could ban 'int' and pointers in your project if you wanted!
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Sure. I do. But there are tradeoffs even then. Look at the error messages compared to printf for example.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Well, wrap it up in something more ergonomic, but it works. I'm usually putting strings into some sort of I/O API (like a logger) instead of hardcoding copies to stdout everywhere. https://stackoverflow.com/a/
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by humanrebar 2y ago
std::string_view with %.*s as a string formatter work well enough if you're set on using printf.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
People love outrage. Many are not aware of it though. If you're engaging with it, it's for you.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
C++ modules need a lot of communication between build systems, compilers, packaging environments, and other dev tools like clangd. Given some of that interop isn't available anywhere due to missing or at least unimplemented protocols,
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by humanrebar 2y ago
I find that C and C++ need nontrivial code generation or environment tuning often enough that you really want a Turing complete expression syntax available.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
It could all be python, but you would need many customization points to serve all the use cases needed to build natively compiled code in all its forms. Language ecosystems like Rust and Go, and even Haskell shrink the problem space to a sm
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by humanrebar 2y ago
It's good advice to not take shots after you're already drinking. Even for mixed drinks, the ABV can vary a lot more compared to lagers, pilsners, etc. The sugar content can be quite a bit higher in mixed drinks as well.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Liquor before beer, you're in the clear.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
It doesn't seem like we are close to robotics providing housing, food, and healthcare for nominal costs to everyone. Seems like we still need a lot of humans working in those spaces. In particular, durable goods (and human bodies and e
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by humanrebar 2y ago
At this point, it's not realistic to maintain interesting C++ programs without a build system. That being said, I expect the specific g++ example you provide will end up working with some special casing in the compiler, at least eventu
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by humanrebar 2y ago
You can order it online and have it delivered. https://www.amazon.com/matzah/s?k=matzah
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by humanrebar 2y ago
> I don't think this proof invalidates any of the excellent work that has been put into Meson. If anything, this shows that build configuration is a hard enough problem that requires a turing-complete language. Most features have go
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by humanrebar 2y ago
There is nuance in the difference between the word "morals" and the word "ethics". The problem is that there are a variety of viewpoints on the distinction. Many of the viewpoints are contradictory or otherwise incompati
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by humanrebar 2y ago
The problem with monorepos is that they're so great that everyone has a few.
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by humanrebar 2y ago
The build system coherence provided by a monorepo with a single build system is what makes you understand this::fn(double) as a single thing. Otherwise, you will get N different mostly compatible but subtly different flavors of entities dep
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by humanrebar 3y ago
If you're saying to use a proper dependency management system (package manager or monorepo build system) and keep Docker to mostly dumb installs, I agree. Though I also think Nix and Bazel are typically not the right starting points fo
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by humanrebar 3y ago
What if the project is python or a dependency of python?
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by humanrebar 3y ago
Meson is way better than autotools, but if you're too level to depend on python, you're probably needing to customize your build scripts in the ways you mention. I don't see meson being a silver bullet there. Also, meson&#x27
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by humanrebar 3y ago
Running that command is simple, sure. The development workflows when that doesn't work is full stop horrible. Also the basic workflows for the alternative build systems have maybe ten more characters to type. It's not bad.

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