Re: Revitalization

From: William Linkmeyer (wlink10_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-12-07 04:54:34

For bringing up new talent, I agree with Niall. 

For Boost’s usage, I maintain that new libraries in the hardware space are useful — audio, visual, libraries. No great ones exist. 

For C++ as a whole, I’m not sure I would recommend this language to newcomers until we break ABI and more of the cppfront syntax & safety is introduced. Our hashing and regex performance is embarrassing. Our syntax is cluttered. We can and should solve those problems. 

WL

> On Dec 6, 2022, at 6:44 PM, Gavin Lambert via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On 7/12/2022 10:42, Robert Ramey wrote:
>> c) use the boost tool (I forget the name) to scan my code and list the required source modules
>> d) include those source files in my b2 or CMake file.
> 
> These steps are atypical.  Most users will run b2 to build binaries (static or dynamic) and then link with these, or will use the prebuilt bintray or whatever binaries, or the prebuilt Linux distro binaries.
> 
> While it's possible to import individual .cpp files, that's never the encouraged method to depend on any C++ libraries, Boost or otherwise.
> 
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