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   cuddle (cuddle@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:51:41 JST cuddle

   C++ is stealing some ideas from Rust...

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:51:39 JST gnutelephony

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     @cuddle I now have a sync pointer template wrapper that hides an object or container as a private member and uses a locked accessor pointer, so there is always a lock (exclusive or rw) asserts when accessing the shared object, which basically was stolen out of how locking works in rust.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 23:12:34 JST gnutelephony

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     @cuddle code can live a long time, often much longer than expected, decades even.

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     cuddle (cuddle@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 23:12:35 JST cuddle

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     • gnutelephony

     @gnutelephony That sounds great on hands. But honestly, I found it hilarious that the ISO C++ community now needs to steal ideas from others. I'm kind of disappointed.

     Also considering the amount of C++ code, I'm not sure if the entire community can move or take advantage of newer C++ features in a decade or so. Many people love backward compatibility, including me. Features need to be included on the compiler side as well.