Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs
by DerekL on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:58PM
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> Heaven help you if you wanted to develop in C++ on OS X, since Apple's packaging of GCC was a total disaster.
If you were developing Mac programs in C++ back then, you were probably using Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
Re:GNU Coding Standards: Writing Robust Programs
by for_xyz on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:09AM
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> Meanwhile, the big open-source desktop C++ libraries (Qt and WxWindows) still don't fully take advantage of the types and features in the standard library in 2021.
Of course not. C++ and libraries don't go along nicely. STL is not really useful for cross boundary interop due the fact that C++ ABI is not stable.
Shipping libraries that leak STL types all over the place will only give you headache.
This is under-stated, IMO. It wasn't really until 2004 or even later that we had high-quality support for C++98 in GCC. LLVM wasn't available, yet. Heaven help you if you wanted to develop in C++ on OSX, since Apple's packaging of GCC was a total disaster. Step zero for developing C++ on OSX was "install GCC from FSF sources" for many years.
Even MSVC support was lagging. It wasn't until the Microsoft tools leadership got involved with C++11 that MSVC took standard support seriously. They were already prioritizing .NET in that timeframe.
Meanwhile, the big open-source desktop C++ libraries (Qt and WxWindows) still don't fully take advantage of the types and features in the standard library in 2021.