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by rewmie 1047 days ago
> This kind of post is why I do not understand C++ programmers whatsoever. It's basically a demonstration of the absurd amount of time C++ takes away from you by being the moldy pile of shit that it is.

What? Exactly what led you to think that nonsense? A random blog post of someone misusing lambda expressions?

There are plenty of things in C++ to criticize, but a) you are not actually criticising anything at all and instead spewed just noise b) misusing a feature is not a problem of C++.

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This isn't a random blog post and the techniques in the blog are actually used by the standard library and some pretty major C++ libraries such as range-v3 and fmtlib.

The author of the blog post is in fact one of the authors of fmtlib.

Getting libraries to play nicely with ADL is actually a huge pain in the ass and in fact the three major C++ compilers don't agree with one another on how to actually perform name lookup in a large number of cases.

Don’t waste too much time trying to convince the commentor, as they have a history of accusing people of “spewing noise” in threads about C++.