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C++14 Is Set In Stone

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-a-soft-stone dept.

jones_supa (887896) writes "Apart from minor editorial tweaks, the ISO C++14 standard can be considered completed. Implementations are already shipping by major suppliers. C++14 is mostly an incremental update over C++11 with some new features like function return type deduction, variable templates, binary literals, generic lambdas, and so on. The official C++14 specification release will arrive later in the year, but for now Wikipedia serves as a good overview of the feature set."

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  1. Oh god so what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    C++ used to be a lightweight set of templates for C. It was good. It was versatile. It was useful. It was easy to learn and easy to develop with it.

    Now it's one of a million things in the computing world suffering so much feature creep, designed by people who have been tinkering with the platform for the past 30 years - that being the only reason they have had enough time to properly learn all its features.

    One day we'll return to a time when computing tools are written for the user rather than for the glory (or the profit) of the tool-builder. We'll understand once again where apparent monstrosities like Visual Basic and COBOL came from: a desire to enable the non-expert to quickly find, understand and implement the features he/she needs for a specific set of use cases. We will return to a time when development and administration was a skill not outsourced to one of a dozen big companies across the planet.

  2. Re:Stone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In your vagina as well.