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0 pointsDSingularity5y ago0 comments

Most of that boilerplate will be hidden in the libraries which use it. Unless you are a library author I don’t know why you would care about the boilerplate-like elements from the standard— you will only use co_yield and co_await.

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j16sdiz5y ago

C++ compilers are famous for their cryptic error messages. Standard Libraries are the reason.

pjmlp5y ago

Lack of concepts was the reason, it will only get better now.

tialaramex5y ago

So far as I can see in 2026 the C++ programmers will be assuring us that (some feature from C++26) is going to fix all the awful clag in the C++23 programs which, in turn, offered (some feature from C++23, maybe it's a simpler exception mechanism) but alas instead created more clag, despite their promise to clear up the mess from C++20...

I am an old man, and so I remember when left and right every C++ programmer was excited about how the Standard Template Library was going to make everything OK and those of us who were still jeering would be writing C++ soon. How did that go?

pjmlp5y ago

I see it differently.

Many will keep hating C++, while ignoring that Java, .NET (C#, F#, VB, C++/CLI), Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby,.... all suffer from similar complexity, spread around 30 - 40 years of language evolution and ecosystems.

Others will cling to their outdated toolchains because the language owners played a Python 3 on them.

While some will understand that the world isn't perfect and make do with what is out there.

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bluGill5y ago

That is the way of everything in the world.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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j16sdiz5y ago

C++ compilers are famous for their cryptic error messages. Standard Libraries are the reason.

pjmlp5y ago

Lack of concepts was the reason, it will only get better now.

tialaramex5y ago

pjmlp5y ago

I see it differently.

Others will cling to their outdated toolchains because the language owners played a Python 3 on them.

While some will understand that the world isn't perfect and make do with what is out there.

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bluGill5y ago

That is the way of everything in the world.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse