Re:Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
by IshKebab on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:24PM
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My feeling is that the desire for it has somewhat waned because so many people that care about the elegance of programming languages and use C++ have just moved to Rust. There are still plenty of people using C++ of course, but it certainly feels like more of a dead end than it did before Rust. Why bother putting a mountain of effort into maybe slightly improving it when in 10-20 years you won't be using it anyway?
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Re:Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
by deterministic on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:15PM
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The number of Rust developers is a drop in the ocean compared with C++ developers. There are more than 5 million C++ developers out there starting new C++ projects every single day. I am one of them.
Re:Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
by steveklabnik on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:36PM
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Not that I disagree that there are a large number of C++ programmers out there, but where did you get that number?
Re:Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
by IshKebab on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:23AM
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Yeah obviously that's true now because C++ has been around for literally decades and had basically 0 competition for all that time.
Re:Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
by deterministic on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:01PM
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And it will continue to be true for a very long time since the world runs on software written in C and C++ and that needs to be maintained and improved.