Comment by BoredomIsFun

24 days ago

> If the compiler isn't implementing all of a particular standard then it's not standard C++.

C++ have historically been driven by practicalities, and violated standards on regular basis, when it deemed useful.

> Those implementations can continue on with their C++ fork without mandating requirements to anyone else.

Then they will diverge too much, like it happened with countless number of other languages, like Lisp.

> Then they will diverge too much, like it happened with countless number of other languages, like Lisp.

Forgive me if I am unconvinced that the existence of DSP-friendly dialects of C++ will cause the kinds of language fracturing that befell Lisp.

DSP workloads are relatively rare compared to the other kinds of workloads C++ is tasked with, and even in those instances a lot of DSP work is starting to be done on more traditional architectures like ARM Cortex-M.