[trealira]

I'm sure legacy C and C++ will be around for a long time, but their process for authoring new standards also seems somewhat unsustainable.

It seems like people making contributions to the C and C++ standards are also at risk of getting burnt out: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23

> It was all worth it.

> …

> Or. That’s what I keep telling myself. Because it doesn’t feel like it was worth it. It feels like I wasted a lot of my life achieving something so ridiculously basic that it’s almost laughable. How utterly worthless I must consider myself, that hearing someone complain about putting data in C++ 5 years ago put me on the track to decide to try to put something in a programming language standard. That I had to fight this hard for table scraps off the Great C Standard’s table.

> What a life, huh?