Comment by flohofwoe
18 hours ago
> It's a direct call to not use many features, and claiming that to do otherwise is a mistake.
I think you are thouroughly misunderstanding the blog post. It's not an aggressive "you must start using this now" thing, but mainly a definition of what "Orthodox C++" is so that communication about coding styles is simplified.
When somebodies says "this project is using the Orthodox C++ style" then it is immediately clear to everybody what exactly that entails (and if not they can google the term it and find the blog post). It's also a counter proposal to some of "Modern C++" madness (like "almost always auto") that was all the rage around a decade ago when that post was first written.
FWIW I wrote a fairly similar blog post in 2013 to describe what our team coding style looked like back then:
https://floooh.github.io/2013/06/21/sane-c.html
(PS: back then I still thought that C++ could be salvaged)
Fancy running into you here.
Anyway, as it turns out, while the STL container situation is better than it was, it's still really terrible performance-wise.
So even nowadays, you're better off writing your own containers for performance-critical tasks; the benefits can be in orders of magnitude (depending on the task at hand, of course).