Comment by locknitpicker
6 hours ago
> Nobody wanted it.
The fact that the C++ standard community has been working on Contracts for nearly a decade is something that by itself automatically refutes your claim.
I understand you want to self-promote, but there is no need to do it at the expense of others. I mean, might it be that your implementation sucked?
Late nineties is approaching thirty decades ago; if the C++ committee has now been working on this for nearly a decade, that's fifteen to twenty years of them not working on it. It's quite plausible that contracts simply weren't valued at the time.
Also, in my view the committee has been entertaining wider and wider language extensions. In 2016 there was a serious proposal for a graphics API based on (I think) Cairo. My own sense is that it's out of control and the language is just getting stuff added on because it can.
Contracts are great as a concept, and it's hard to separate the wild expanse of C++ from the truly useful subset of features.
There are several things proposed in the early days of C++ that arguably should be added.
I am not sure what the "truly useful features are" if you take into account that C++ goes from games to servers to embedded, audio, heterogeneous programming, some GUI frameworks, real-time systems (hard real-time) and some more.
I would say some of the features that are truly useful in some niches are les s imoortant in others and viceversa.
> Late nineties is approaching thirty decades ago
Boy, this makes me feel old... oh wait :)
(I agree with your point; early 90s vs. mid-10s are two very different worlds, in this context.)
> I understand you want to self-promote
Not a very fair assumption. However, even if your not so friendly point was even true, I'd like people who have invented popular languages to "self-promote" more (here dlang). It is great to get comments on HN from people who have actually achieved something nice !
In the early 1990s, C++ had not yet been standardized by ISO, so your argument doesn’t apply to that period.