Comment by orf
3 years ago
The article definitely isn’t a glowing praise of C/C++. In fact, including this simple, useful feature that rust has had for a decade now has taken an immense amount of effort and received so much pushback from various parties, in part due to the strangled mess of various compiler limitations and in part because of design-by-committee stupidity.
C/C++ seems to be kicking it’s own ass.
Not to mention that it didn't even get into C++
The article doesn't even mention C++/Java.
Second paragraph of the title article:
> Surprisingly, despite this journey starting with C++ and WG21, the C Committee is the one that managed to get there first
Later it mentions presenting their first formal attempt at this to Belfast 2019, that's a C++ meeting, it's too late for this to go into C++ 20 at that point, but it easily could have been in C++ 23 (it is not).