Modern C++ Won't Save Us

[evilrat]

On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 22:19:25 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
> On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 18:52:50 UTC, evilrat wrote:
>> Can't find that project now, but I have another simple 
>> prototype, too bad it simply runs new thread, so this means 
>> actually no integration. No surprises then, no common API, 
>> nothing to agree upon on for different loops :/
>
> Welcome to the dub ecosystem, where every library reinvents the 
> same abstractions since there's no standard baseline for 
> libraries to support; may not work across all platforms (esp 
> Windows); probably has deficiencies for common/specific use 
> cases, and probably hasn't been updated within the last 2 
> years, and so newer libraries reinvent the same abstractions 
> since... etc.
>
> Basically feels like this XKCD when searching on dub: 
> https://xkcd.com/927/

And we have std.allocator on the other hand, but because there is 
who knows how old compiler version in the wild still alive, in 
practice "everyone" just uses stdx.allocator from dub.