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by gpderetta 495 days ago
Sockets has been in the work for the last 15 years. We almost got asio in the standard. There is significant interest in this, but also monumental bikeshedding.

A GUI proposal also was in the work for a while, then dropped because of lack of interest.

Threads definitely belong in the standard. Just because some platforms can't implement everything it doesn't mean the standard should be the minimum common denominator. Some embedded platforms don't even have malloc!

edit: but I think you are arguing in favor and I just failed at reading comprehension!
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spacechild1 495 days ago
> A GUI proposal also was in the work for a while, then dropped because of lack of interest.

Are your sure? I can remember proposals for 2D graphics, but I have never heard of a GUI proposal. Graphics is only concerned with drawing things on a canvas. GUIs are about, well, graphical user interfaces which also involve user input, even handling, window management, etc.

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gpderetta 494 days ago
You might be right and I might be misremembering. I thought there was a some point a subcomittee looking into GUIs in addition to the 2d graphic proposal.

edit: I think SG13 was supposed to look into GUIs at some point, but with even the 2d graphic proposal failing, it was disbanded.

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jcranmer 494 days ago
The closest I think they got to a concrete proposal was web_view (https://wg21.link/p1108).
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spacechild1 494 days ago
Interesting! AFAICT this would allow to run some JS code in a web browser, right? One thing I don't understand:

> Each web_view class instance represents an independent, asynchronous web-content interface. The provided web_view shall support content complying with the [HTML5], [PNG], and [ECMAScript] standards.

Who is supposed to provide the runtime?

Also, it shows how to call a JS function and get the result back in C++, but how would you interface with C++ from within JS (e.g. in an event handler)?

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