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Re: ???The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry???

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Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> wrote:
> I disagree on C++17.  What the core language of C++14 guaranteed was
> quite trashed by C++17.

If you read the list of added features in C++17 (from eg. the Wikipedia
article), most of them sound quite useful and practical, many making
things simpler. There are a few features that could have probably been
left out without anybody really missing them, but most of them seem
very practical.

The text message for static_assert becoming optional is handy and nice.
The "namespace x::y::z" syntax for nested namespaces is really convenient.
The new attributes are useful (especially [[maybe_unused]]).
Initializers in 'if' and 'switch' statements may not be crucial, but
sometimes they become handy.
The same can be said of structured bindings and class template argument
deduction.
Mandatory copy elision adds an efficiency guarantee (and doesn't change
the language syntax itself), so that's nice.
Inline variables are actually useful, especially for header-only libraries.
__has_include is a nice-to-have feature.

constexpr functions are quite a swamp that should have been thought better
in C++11, but given that they exist in their current form and we are stuck
with them, 'if constexpr' can be a useful addition. (The same could be
said of variadic templates and the new fold expressions in C++17.)

(Not going to comment about the additions to the standard library because
the library is not part of the core language syntax and semantics, and thus
not really what I'm talking about here.)

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“The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-11-03 14:30 -0500
  Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-03 13:03 -0700
    Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-03 13:04 -0700
      Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-11-03 16:07 -0500
    Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-11-03 16:05 -0500
      Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-03 14:25 -0700
        Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-11-05 14:12 -0500
          Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-05 14:20 -0700
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  Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2022-11-05 21:42 +0000
  Re: “The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-11-06 11:55 -0800
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      Re: ???The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry??? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2022-11-08 03:54 -0800
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