Asset Stewardship Review

From: Adam C Getchell (acgetchell_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-23 18:17:45

I support the C++ Alliance proposal to transfer assets and form a new Steering Committee.

I’ve been a downstream user of Boost for more than a decade for my research project, and joined the mailing list to get help on using the project effectively.

My initial interactions were to sort out build errors, which were mostly resolved with the adoption of vcpkg (after trying biicode and then Conan) and the work on making Boost compatible with CMake.

I have appreciated the C++ Alliance’s sponsorship of tools such as the Slack workspace and CI, and I believe this is necessary to ensure progress.

I also learned a lot reading the documentation and code of Louis Dionne’s Boost.Hana and Vinnie Falco’s Boost.Beast.

As a side note, my research involves writing low-level simulations of the universe, and unfortunately the various memory errors and other bugs have convinced me to go reluctantly down the path of using Rust to write low-level memory-safe abstractions that I can count on to run for months at a time without segfaults or other issues that compromise the validity of the data. Thus, Circle and the recent Safe C++ proposal are very interesting to me, and if they are ever adopted I might back port them to my current codebase. However, this probably won’t be effective until the libraries I depend on make similar efforts. By then, I will probably have everything I need written in Rust.
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Adam Getchell
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