Re: Revitalization

From: Gregory Dai (gregory.dai_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-12-04 19:01:06

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:14 AM Christopher Kormanyos via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>  > interested to hear your opinions as to> what happened over that time>
> period to cause such a trend.
> I believe that both Boost and C++ as wellas the general skill level in the
> communityall simply increased.
> C++ has become mainstream for thosewho want to use it. Also C++ (in its
> post C++11form) has gotten very good, as have compilers.The situation is
> much more comfortableand stable/reliable than in 98, even forembedded
> systems where great strigdestoward language adherence have been made.
>
> Boost is mature.So the whole C++/Boost thingis just getting
> well-industrialized - as it should.
> C++ remains an excessively popularlanguage and Boost adds to its
> richness.But I think the traffic regarding openquestions and queries is
> simply reducedexactly by this established stability.
> Chris
>

I agree with this assessment.

Boost was largely inspired by the lack of progress after C++98. But after
all the new development since C++11 up to C++20, the language (together
with the latest compilers) is much more modern, mature, stable and
comfortable to use.

Kudos to the people who have been involved in the standardization work over
the past (more than) two decades.

>
>     On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 04:26:31 AM GMT+1, René Ferdinand
> Rivera Morell via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>  On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 7:37 AM Ivan Matek via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > P.S. Regarding resources: I know money is considered dirty in most open
> > source communities(I never understood that),
>
> I don't think that's the sentiment. The thought I hear more often is
> that it's almost impossible to earn a living with OSS development.
>
> > but if Boost would set up some
> > way to support people doing work and resources were spend transparently I
> > think that would be beneficial to the community and Boost itself.
>
> That could, minimally, provide some funds for people. The logistics
> would be a bit complicated though.
>
> > Again I
> > might be too optimistic, mold linker author recently mentioned how he is
> > unable to support mold development from donations, but you can count on
> > mine 5$/month :)
>
> There are at least 103 BoostORG members. Probably a fair number are
> not active -- and at least one passed away :-( But to give you an idea
> of how direct financing does and does work..
>
> The C++ Alliance employs/pays a handful (8) of Boost programmers. And
> the benefits are clear. As what they work on is getting improvements
> (hash containers, json, url).
>
> Others may try to get GitHub sponsorships to encourage their work.
> Here's a breakdown of the current sponsorship picture (this includes
> the C++ Alliance people also):
>
> BoostORG Members (103) Sponsors: ("None" stands for not accepting
> sponsors.)
>
> Andrzej Krzemieński (akrzemi1): None
> Alan de Freitas (alandefreitas): None
> Alain Miniussi (aminiussi): None
> Antony Polukhin (apolukhin): None
> Artyom Beilis (artyom-beilis): None
> Andrii Sydorchuk (asydorchuk): None
> Adam Wulkiewicz (awulkiew): None
> Barend Gehrels (barendgehrels): None
> Noel Belcourt (Belcourt): None
> Brandon Kohn (brandon-kohn): None
> brunolalande (brunolalande): None
> chhenning (chhenning): None
> chriskohlhoff (chriskohlhoff): None
> Christopher Kormanyos (ckormanyos): None
> Christian Mazakas (cmazakas): None
> Sebastian Redl (CornedBee): None
> Daryle Walker (CTMacUser): None
> Daniel Frey (d-frey): None
> Daniel James (danieljames): None
> Joel de Guzman (djowel): None
> Edward Diener (eldiener): None
> Eric Niebler (ericniebler): None
> Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola): None
> Alexander Grund (Flamefire): None
> John Fletcher (fletchjp): None
> Frank Mori Hess (fmhess): None
> Aaron Boman (frenchtoast747): None
> Glen Fernandes (glenfe): None
> René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot): 0
> Dmitry (grisumbras): None
> Hans Dembinski (HDembinski): None
> headmyshoulder (headmyshoulder): None
> henry-ch (henry-ch): None
> Nathan Ridge (HighCommander4): None
> Hartmut Kaiser (hkaiser): None
> Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga): None
> Jeff Garland (JeffGarland): None
> Jeff Trull (jefftrull): None
> Jim King (jeking3): None
> Jeremy W. Murphy (jeremy-murphy): None
> Jesun Sahariar Firoz (jesunsahariar): None
> Joel Falcou (jfalcou): None
> Jürgen Hunold (jhunold): None
> joaquintides (joaquintides): None
> jofaber (jofaber): None
> jzmaddock (jzmaddock): None
> Agustín Bergé (K-ballo): None
> Kyle Lutz (kylelutz): None
> Andrey Semashev (Lastique): None
> Lorenzo Caminiti (lcaminiti): None
> Louis Dionne (ldionne): None
> Pranam Lashkari (lpranam): None
> Richard Hodges (madmongo1): None
> Marcin Zalewski (marcinz): None
> Mario Mulansky (mariomulansky): None
> Matthias Troyer (matthiastroyer): None
> Marshall Clow (mclow): None
> Prathamesh Tagore (meshtag): None
> MIRAL SHAH (miralshah365): None
> Michael Caisse (mjcaisse): None
> Menelaos Karavelas (mkaravel): None
> Marek Kurdej (mkurdej): None
> Mateusz Łoskot (mloskot): None
> morinmorin (morinmorin): None
> Nick (NAThompson): None
> Niall Douglas (ned14): 0
> neilgroves (neilgroves): None
> Nikhar Agrawal (Nikhar): None
> Oliver Kowalke (olk): None
> Paul A. Bristow (pabristow): None
> Peter Zhang (paldar): None
> patak (patak-dev): 0
> Peter Dimov (pdimov): None
> Daniel Pfeifer (purpleKarrot): None
> Raffi Enficiaud (raffienficiaud): None
> Robert Ramey (robertramey): None
> Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff): None
> rsdale (rsdale): None
> Ronald Garcia (rxg): None
> Abel Sinkovics (sabel83): None
> Sam Darwin (sdarwin): None
> Samuel Debionne (sdebionne): None
> Krystian Stasiowski (sdkrystian): None
> sehe (sehe): None
> Olzhas Zhumabek (simmplecoder): None
> Thomas Heller (sithhell): None
> spreadsort (spreadsort): None
> Stefan Seefeld (stefanseefeld): None
> swatanabe (swatanabe): None
> Tim Blechmann (timblechmann): None
> Jonathan Turkanis (turkanis): None
> Zach Laine (tzlaine): None
> Jeroen Habraken (VeXocide): None
> Vicente J. Botet Escriba (viboes): None
> Vinnie Falco (vinniefalco): None
> Vissarion Fisikopoulos (vissarion): None
> Vladimir Prus (vprus): None
> Mike Wazowski (yet-another-user): None
> David Bellot (yimyom): None
> Emil Dotchevski (zajo): None
>
> Total members looking for sponsorship: 3 (out of 103
>
> Total individuals sponsoring members: 0
>
>
> --
> -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell
> -- Don't Assume Anything  -- No Supone Nada
> -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net
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