MFHava

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   by MFHava 16d ago

   >> The current contracts are not good enough for anybody who wants them - > This is a recurring pattern across large changes to c++. Modules and coroutines both are great examples of this. Coroutines are ready since C++20, there is
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   by MFHava 16d ago

   > And I think each national body has a veto. (that is the vote has to be unanimous, but not sure here). No veto. Every P-member has a vote (abstain/approve/disapprove). Whether C++26 gets published is decided by numerical conse
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   by MFHava 28d ago

   Oh it was, actually still is - our right wing party is still talking about this stuff regularly...
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   by MFHava 1mo ago

   > They then watched the gcc community work through 10 years of pain to make the transition. During the same time the MSVC compiler broke ABI multiple times and the world didn't end. The fact that breaking ABI was such a shitshow for
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   by MFHava 1mo ago

   I have to disagree with the author in one key detail: IMHO Windows wasn't neglected, it was actively made worse over the last decade(s)...
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   by MFHava 2mo ago

   > no one is even buying idTech Kinda hard to buy an engine that is not for sale...
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   by MFHava 6mo ago

   > Most crucially, both keyboards introduced a new tenant: Control (⌃). This was modifier key number four, and to this day, I don’t fully understand why ⌘ wasn’t repurposed here Because then we would have ended up with the same mess that