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Re:In Defense of C++ by juliangmp on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @05:51AM (#45273789)
> This is a strength not a weakness

Massive cope, there's no excuse for the lack of decent infrastructure. I mean, the C++ committee for years said explicitly that they don't care about infrastructure and build systems, so it's not really surprising.

Re:In Defense of C++ by gpderetta on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:33AM (#45274058)
The reality is that for any moderately complex C++ application, actually compiling C++ code is only a small part of what the build system does.
Re:In Defense of C++ by raverbashing on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @07:38AM (#45274526)
Well yeah

We have autoconf/automake checking if you're on a big endian PDP8 or if your compiler has support for cutting edge features like "bool"