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by Davidbrcz 8 days ago
Except the language keeps growing, with

- new features overlapping old features previous standards without replacing them or deprecating them. - new features not usable by the layman - ...

See function::copyable_function vs std::function, modules, coroutines, Reflection syntax is cryptic at best, ...
1 comments
VoidWarranty 8 days ago
You don't have to use them. There's a handful of nice to haves in modern releases but its totally fine and sane to just ignore whatever the committee is distracted by at the moment.

Hell, if you wait long enough, they'll just deprecate it before you can care to bother.

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Davidbrcz 8 days ago
And that's the usual fallacy (just ignore the bad stuff).

But if you work with C++ in professional context, you will encounter it somewhere (library, teamate's PR, legacy code, LLM output, book / blog / conference ...). |

You actually need to know the bad stuff to be able to judge it and discard it.

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VoidWarranty 8 days ago
We're talking about different things.

Im talking about your own personal coding. You dont have to use the new things. You dont have to know them to decide to discard them. In fact, the criteria to discard something is to not know it. You generally shouldn't be using things you dont know anyway.

The fact that other people use things you do not know is not a reason to stress out about the dumb pace and direction c++ is moving in. It is possible to enjoy a life free from fomo about the c++ standards goalposts.

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