Re: [boost] Boost libraries after C++0x acceptance

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-11 10:39:16

Bjørn Roald wrote:
> Edward Diener skrev:
>> Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
>>   
>> While Microsoft can be commended for raising the level of their compiler 
>> in VC7.1 and VC8, the truth is that where it matters commercially almost 
>> no new future work is being done in C++ and .Net, and this is directly 
>> the "fault" of Microsoft.
>>
>>   
> Or their hopefully failing purpose.  I think the game here is as follows:
> 
> 1. a lot of C++ code is out there
> 2. we want those projects tied up in, and eventually converted to our 
> proprietary platform called .NET.
> 3. to convert those projects to .NET we need C++.net  (i.e. managed C++) 
> so they can be tempted to move in our direction
> 4. we create a set  of C++ bindings to .NET (vs 2003)
> 5. oops, it failed --- almost nobody moved since it looked ugly

It failed because of the infamous loader lock bug ( 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vcconMixedDLLLoadingProblem.asp 
). The syntax has been made better and easier to use from Managed C++ to 
C++/CLI, but that has little to do with the failure.