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A comment on C++20 Modules with GCC11. Parent comment

Re:C++20 Modules with GCC11 by jcelerier on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:19AM (#28231251)
> It'll be decades before our existing c++ code base is converted to modules

> I'm trying to move to go when I can and pure rust otherwise.

I don't understand in which universe replacing includes by imports takes more time than a full rewrite in a different language

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Re:C++20 Modules with GCC11 by speters on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:08AM (#28231785)
It is not as if the same effort will be dedicated to switching to modules than a rewrite (which probably won't happen for the OP)
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