On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 12:05:13 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
C++ is under pressure from Rust, Go and perhaps also D. Mostly
because it takes years (or decades) to get new features into
C++, so they have to start working on new features early. I am
not even sure we would have seen the C++ guidelines/GSL
initiative without Rust. They basically bypassed the standard
process in order to "add features" faster by pushing it at
CppCon...
and in typical C++ fashion, it's going to just be a gigantic ugly
hack
