Re: "Trip report: June 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting (Sofia,

On Fri, 2025-06-27 at 12:21 +0000, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:56:17 +0800
wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> wibbled:

On Thu, 2025-06-26 at 15:41 +0200, David Brown wrote:
dealing with 'small' (or part of) problems (e.g. avoiding to deal with grap> > hics=20
or provide basic facilities).

 
A multi platform language has no business having something like graphics built
in. There are too many variations on different systems and some don't have
graphics at all. Also unless you release a new version of C++ everytime eg
NVidia updates the Cuda functionality then you'll have to use libraries anyway.

There are various level of 'graphics'.
The point is a 'C++ graphics' so that a C++ program can draw Shape (as C++ demo
its OO capability). It would be just like cout, you don't need to worry about
what the low level stuff is.

IMO C++ should never have included threads because the original model was
a half arsed implementation probably skewed towards Windows rather than unix
and now there's the inconsistency of C++ natively supporting multithreading
but not multiprocess.