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[HadrienG]

I would like to agree with you. But the problem with that line of thinking is that at this point in time, if you want a UI toolkit to support more than...

[HadrienG]

Can you expand a bit on your use cases ? I am asking because I used to have a somewhat similar problem (Windows/Linux/macOS file sync), but over recent...

[HadrienG]

I reached the same conclusion at the time. But since we had that pattern in multiple areas of the codebase, and I was worried about enforcing use of the...

[HadrienG]

I would beg to differ with even that assertion. In my experience, C++ tends to be harder to use correctly than Rust because it has a lot more edge cases,...

[HadrienG]

Oh, I forgot another problem with C++'s const design which caused me some pain a while ago. The fact that a const object with an inner pointer-to-mutable...

[HadrienG]

This is not about nullness, it is about non-null pointer/references pointing to a live or dead allocation.

From memory, the only form of...

[HadrienG]

I agree. As far as I see it, that's the main argument in favor of rewriting large bunches of existing infrastructure, as opposed to just writing new library...

[HadrienG]

Replying as someone who uses C++ daily at work and has spent way too much time getting comfortable with the intricacies of the recent standards for my...

[HadrienG]

This is false.

For a simple counter-example, iterator invalidation is a very common C++ memory safety bug, that no amount of modern C++ magic...

[HadrienG]

Yeah, with nanosecond timestamps, even at 64-bit, that's about what you get.

(Quick check : (2^64 nanoseconds / (about 10^9*3600*24*365.25...

[HadrienG]

No matter what you think about the choice of programming language, it's good to see AMD hiring some extra software devs. When comparing with the NVidia...

[HadrienG]

AFAIK most Xeon (server/workstation-marketed) chips don't have built-in graphics, and on the AMD side, since the Ryzen architecture, built-in graphics...

[HadrienG]

It's been a while since I looked at it, but IIRC the currently proposed RISC-V vectorization model uses Cray vectors. Still SIMD-style execution under...

[HadrienG]

And to make matters worse, here you are implicitly treating AVX-512 as a unified ISA extension like AVX-2. It is not. There is a myriad of "AVX-512"...

[HadrienG]

auto's type deduction is limited, and assumes that the compiler will have enough context to figure out the right variable type from the right hand side...