[lallysingh]

Ha! Modules. I wrote a basic version of that in 2006 for Boost. This is as big a useless mess as web components. It feels like c++ is in the legacy category with x86, still here, tolerable due to exponential efforts, and still dying for simpler solutions that aren't beholden to decades-old design mistakes. (variable instruction width, context-sensitive grammar, #include model, etc).

[maccard]

I think that what we have standardised as modules give us a path off the include model, honestly. It’s just that it’s the most pandered-to version of modules you could imagine. We entirely changed the compilation model and didn’t manage to tie module names to filesystem paths, meaning you need to parse the module file to figure out what module it is. It’s death by a thousand cuts