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by pjmlp 1633 days ago
Educate yourself on Android source code.

You can even start by the new entries related to Rust.

https://source.android.com/setup/build/rust/building-rust-mo...
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ncmncm 1633 days ago
Why would I care about anything on that page?

I have no need to read hype about Rust, regardless of where it might run. And, I have no desire to build Android apps, in any language.

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pjmlp 1633 days ago
To educate yourself about what ISO C++ companies are actually doing with the language.

The reference to Rust was just an example on how such members are also looking for alternatives, other big names are looking into Swift, C#, whatever.

Meanwhile clang crawls along on its support for newer ISO C++ features, as the biggest contributors now have their focus elsewhere.

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flumpcakes 1632 days ago
> Meanwhile clang crawls along on its support for newer ISO C++ features, as the biggest contributors now have their focus elsewhere.

What did you mean by this? I am not an LLVM expert or anything, but I find more-often-than-not most of the new features I read about that make its way into LLVM are requirements needed due to clang adding things from new C++ standards. These improvements then benefit other frontends like the one for Rust.

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pjmlp 1632 days ago
Google and Apple were the biggest contributors.

Well, for Apple, C++ is relevant only in the context of Metal shaders (a C++14 subset) and IO/DriverKit (an embedded C++ like subset), everything else is about Objective-C and Swift, with C++17 being good enough for whatever else they need.

Likewise on Google style, it is all about C++ guidelines at Googleplex, where even not all C++17 features are welcomed.

Everyone else seems more interested in C++ features for their own platforms rather than contributing to upstream (thanks license), so there you go.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20

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