Whenever I start to feel like a real programmer making games and webapps and AI-enhanced ETL pipelines, I inevitably come across the blog post of a C++ expert and reminded that I am basically playing with legos and play-doh.
tw061023 · 1m ago
It's the other way around. You are the real programmer and the committee and the "modern C++" crowd are more interested playing with legos instead of shipping actual software.
No way anything std::meta gets into serious production; too flexible in some ways, too inflexible in other, too much unpredictability, too high impact on compilation times - just like always with newer additions to the C++ standard. It takes one look at coding standards of real-world projects to see how irrelevant this stuff is.
And like always, the problem std::meta is purported to solve has been solved for years.
lmariscal · 31m ago
I would argue that C++ expertise doesn't necessarily correlate to the complexity of the software being developed. Although I do try to learn the fancy new features I know many developers who even though they are still only using C++11 features they are creating some very complex and impactful pieces of software.
tombert · 31m ago
I'm not a C++ developer at all, but unless I'm missing something this didn't seem terribly difficult?
This isn't meant to make myself seem smart or to try and make you seem dumb, I'm just curious what was confusing about this even from a high-level perspective. It felt like a clever but not too atypical metaprogramming thing.
No way anything std::meta gets into serious production; too flexible in some ways, too inflexible in other, too much unpredictability, too high impact on compilation times - just like always with newer additions to the C++ standard. It takes one look at coding standards of real-world projects to see how irrelevant this stuff is.
And like always, the problem std::meta is purported to solve has been solved for years.
This isn't meant to make myself seem smart or to try and make you seem dumb, I'm just curious what was confusing about this even from a high-level perspective. It felt like a clever but not too atypical metaprogramming thing.
Maybe I've just done too much Clojure.