On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 04:41:33 UTC, Komplex wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 03:56:05 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
It seems C++ is following the road of PL/I, which is growing
language way beyond the point anyone can understand or
implement all of it.
but that happened to the linux kernel too, long ago?
Not really.
First - Linux (for the scale) is architectured wuite well.
Second - language are way more composable and complex beasts then
systems. I bet I can understand most of Linux kernel in a couple
of years (w/o drivers and arch specifics beyond x86). Abstraction
and components/interfaces is time-proven technique that actually
works for the most part.
In contradt I will likely never understand or have a good
picture of C++20 as a (semi-)coherent whole, not that I really
wanted to.
D is probably at the edge of what I can tollerate
complexity-wise. And we’ll get to simplify a few things soon I
believe.
and yet...it's everywhere..and increasingly so...
It has evolved a lot. Yet I believe we can get better things done
w/o years upon years of churn. But that’s just a point of view.
we need to move away from this concept that we need to
understand it all, or otherwise.. it must be bad.
