Comment by imron
6 months ago
I’ve been using c++ since the late 90’s but am not stuck there.
I was using c++11 when it was still called c++0x (and even before that when many of the features were developing in boost).
I took a break for a few years over c++14, but caught up again for c++17 and parts of c++20...
Which puts me 5-6 years behind the current state of things and there’s even more new features (and complexity) on the horizon.
I’m supportive of efforts to improve and modernize c++, but it feels like change didn’t happen at all for far too long and now change is happening too fast.
The ‘design by committee’ with everyone wanting their pet feature plus the kitchen sink thrown in doesn’t help reduce complexity.
Neither does implementing half-baked features from other ‘currently trendy’ languages.
It’s an enormous amount of complexity - and maybe for most code there’s not that much extra actual complexity involved but it feels overwhelming.
It’s okay to be a few years behind the standard, the compilers tend to be as well.
Yeah, the issue is more that the perceived complexity means I’m less interested in investing time to catch it all back up
If you already used C++20 you aren't meaningfully behind, very little of interest has been introduced since then, and much of it isn't usable yet because of implementation issues.
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