Hasnain says:

Well worded rant in ABI compatibility concerns in C++. I learnt a lot about the politics in the standardization process and a lot of technical minutiae at the same time.

“You cannot make me pay my blood for a contract with this insidious, ever-pervasive amalgamation, I was not even alive to bear witness to. I will not sit in every meeting and be endlessly bullied by implementations that do not know how to handle a problem they are the sole controller and proprietor for. It’s absolutely inane that even the most mundane of proposals can suddenly be ran through like a train wreck because the pinnacle of C++ and C experts cannot answer the question “how do I version something”. I will have a good standard library. It will meet my performance requirements. It will be correct. I do not care how many ghosts of the past there are. I do not care how many implementations exist where a person programming for longer than I have been alive made a sub-optimal choice one day and now we just have to live with that, for the rest of eternity. I will not be made to suffer someone else’s mistakes in perpetuity, while they also continue to make the same mistakes in egregiously flagrant fashions now and into the future.

I shouldn’t even be held back by my own mistakes from yesterday, what kind of world do we live in where we settle on a process so fundamentally against the human condition of learning and growing as an individual? Why would we prioritize a working process that at its deepest roots is so fundamentally against the living human being, and happier to dwell with the dead?”

Posted on 2021-09-24T06:32:00+0000