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Re:The struggle with Rust by gcp on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:09AM (#13471868)
And imho the initial promise of addressing the out of control complexity of C++ was not met.

I'm not sure. Type traits seem to be much more manageable than how the same thing is handled in C++ template code, no?

Also, if we can bring in ecosystem effects such as cargo...

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Re:The struggle with Rust by eternalban on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:09AM (#13472476)
I guess I should have added that I last touched C++ in '96 and never (ever) have had an urge to look back. :)
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Re:The struggle with Rust by gcp on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:22AM (#13479706)
I've you've never seen template programming, but just C with classes, then yes, I can see how you arrive at this conclusion. C++ in 2017 is very different from what it was in 1996.
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Re:The struggle with Rust by eternalban on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:55PM (#13487065)
I was using STL and RTTI. I know the language has substantially improved. These days I've actually rediscovered the joy of plain C.
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