On 11/12/24 01:10, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>
> Ever heard of COBOL?

Yes; they were still teaching it back in 1997.

>
> But I disagree we should copy it all. If we did, we'd end up with Rust plus a
> bunch of legacy, which is unlikely to be as useful. If Rust has a market, let
> it have it. C++ has a market, a niche. There s nothing wrong in other
> languages existing.
>
> What's important is that C++ have a purpose and be good at it. Abandoning the
> purpose of what makes C++ good and trying to copy what made another language
> good is not a good strategy, IMHO.

Well if there's a need for another language then it shows the weaknesses
in another one. I think that weakness can be solved easily with the
aforementioned bullet points and it would even make people like Linus
Torvalds happy.

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