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Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for

From boltar@nowhere.co.uk
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.c
Subject Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for
Date 2019-12-05 12:51 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 18:34:41 +0000
Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> wrote:
>On 04/12/2019 16:53, boltar@nowhere.co.uk wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 14:32:37 +0100
>> Stuart Redmann <DerTopper@web.de> wrote:
>>> Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <qs5e3e$91s$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> David Brown  <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not Invented Here Syndrome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not /Controlled/ Here Syndrome.
>>>>>
>>>>> MS were quite happy to support Java as long as they could make their own
>>>>> incompatible version.  When the courts said they were not allowed to do
>>>>> that (and still call it "Java"), they went off in a huff and made C# as
>>>>> their own alternative to Java which /they/ controlled.
>>>>
>>>> Well, they controlled it because they had invented it.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we really disagree much here.
>>>>
>>>> P.S.  People often talk as if C# was invented by itself, as a standalone
>>>> language.  In fact, C# is just one member of the .NET/CLR family.  I think
>>>> of VB.NET as the primary .NET language.  I suppose C# comes next after VB.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Note that MS also made the integration of unmanaged C++ code into the
>>> managed DotNet world very simple, something that is much harder to achieve
>>> with Java (co-workers of mine constantly struggle with this, whereas I
>>> enjoy the easy C++/CLI coding :-)
>>>
>>> IMHO, this makes C# more than just a Java clone. I have done three large
>>> projects (> 100kLOC) with C++/C#, and I enjoyed it very much.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>> PS: I was lying a little bit. When my managed C++ libraries wouldn't load
>>> because boost::thread uses TLS somewhere inside, I spent an awful great
>> 
>> Boost? Ugh. The sooner that hideous bloatware buggers off down the same
>rubbish
>> chute as Roguewaves APIs did back in the 00s the better. There's been little
>> good reason to use it since c++14 came out.
>
>That's because a good deal of boost is now part of C++; if boost was rubbish

A good deal? Maybe 10%. 

>that wouldn't have happened, idiot.

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  Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" Pankaj Jangid <p4j@j4d.net> - 2019-12-03 09:21 +0530
    Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-03 02:03 -0300
      Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-12-03 09:40 +0000
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          Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-12-03 03:05 -0800
            Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-12-03 16:29 +0100
          NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software") gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-12-03 11:33 +0000
            Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software") David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-12-03 16:24 +0100
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            Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software") Stuart Redmann <DerTopper@web.de> - 2019-12-04 14:32 +0100
              Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-12-04 16:53 +0000
                Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-12-04 09:57 -0800
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                Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-04 18:17 +0000
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                Re: NIHS (Was: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-12-04 11:11 -0800
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    Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-05 12:29 -0800
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    Re: "Microsoft Exploring Rust as the Solution for Safe Software" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-12-07 07:28 +0100
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