Better branding of -betterC

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 3 November 2020 at 10:25:15 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 November 2020 at 06:04:26 UTC, norm wrote:
>>
>> Just going to pick on this para. sorry :)
>>
>> I hear this a lot and it is simply not true. Working in 
>> embedded for the last ~18yrs (automotive and medical) every 
>> project since 2010 I know of is C++. At conferences and the 
>> like over the last 2-3yrs there is a lot of talk about Rust 
>> and people are starting to mention MicroPython for 
>> prototyping. But as a whole everyone I talk to is looking 
>> forward to upgrading their C++ compilers on the next project 
>> to get C++20 features.
>>
>> Every C++ embedded project I have ever seen has exceptions 
>> turned off.
>
> It's funny that they talk about C++20 in the embedded 
> environment but many features cannot be used because of STL. 
> STL is just like phobos and will become just as big if you 
> statically link with it. Turning exceptions off also means that 
> many parts of the STL library will be dysfunctional. Usually 
> you need specialized libraries.
>
> Modern C++ is even more of a mess because they have moved much 
> of the functionality to the STL library. std::move for example 
> is a library template, which can be duplicated outside of 
> course but still you need to do that with a lot of functions. 
> Even statically compiled primitives are library templates today 
> with some inunderstandable implementation underneath. STL is 
> this big blob that can include all sort of things that you 
> don't expect even for simple primitives.
>
> Apart of a the ugliness of modern C++, many of the modern 
> features are implemented in such a way it is difficult to make 
> it freestanding from STL. You do not want STL in embedded 
> systems.
>
> Is modern C++ good for embedded systems? No, you need to slice 
> of half of the new features because of the reasons I mentioned 
> above.

To be fair same applies to C, hence C89 + OEM extensions.

In some domains even C11 is a challenge regarding adoption, as 
per the reports I usually read.