[OT] Clang seems to implement modules

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 17 November 2012 at 11:03:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> I just read the slides of a talk from that latest LLVM 
> Developers' Meeting. It's a talk about modules by Doug Gregor 
> from Apple. It seems that they already have started to 
> implement this new feature in Clang.

It's about time...

I honestly cannot believe that this wasn't #1 priority for C++11. 
Everyone that uses C++ for a living knows that compilation time 
is the biggest practical problem with C++, yet the standards 
committee seems completely unaware of this.

Herb Sutter posted a poll recently asking what people wanted most 
from their C++ compiler. In the poll options he had things such 
as conformance, safety, runtime performance, but didn't even 
think to add compile time performance. Of course, everyone in the 
comments wasn't pleased with this.

http://herbsutter.com/2012/10/03/poll-what-features-would-you-like-to-see-added-soonest-in-your-favorite-c-compiler/

I get the feeling that the C++ standards committee was formed to 
serve Boost developers.