Re: We have a new standard!

On Sun, 2024-12-29 at 08:50 -0500, Sam wrote:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
 

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:05:37 -0500
Phillip <nntp@fulltermprivacy.com> gabbled:

I'm still on C++98 and C++03. Everything beyond that is just bloat to me. ;-)

 
I would say that C++ 11 did improve things particularly wrt the STL and
possibly 2014 was the high point. Beyond that its been as you say pointless
bloat that achieves nothing.

 
I would say that C++17 was also an incremental improvement.
 
But C++20 jumped the shark, when the standardization process was hijacked by 
Microsoft in order to cram coroutines into the language, which noone wanted, 
cared, or asked for, simply because the standard threading model in Windows 
blows chunks, performance wise, and Microsoft desperately needed a 
multithreading model that did not suck.
 
And things went downhill from that point on…
 

Basically, c++ standard or standardization is political. There are lots of
standard committee members' 'old software' to maintain. There is nothing wrong
with that. The wrong thing is regarding it as better new technology, especially
when libwy is more advanced (idea) than c++standard library by one generation.