Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 16:18:35 -0400
On 5/25/23 16:12, Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals wrote:
>
> Um, no. That would break the performance of any number of applications
> that don't need thread safety or have handled it properly themselves.
You just turn it on or off depending on the need, defaulting to off
obviously.
> If you want a language where you can write anything and the system is
> designed to account for every possible contingency, that's fine. But
> that's not C++, nor is it going to be, nor should it become that. What
> you want is a higher-level language.
>
> And I'm pretty sure no language makes *everything* in its standard
> library thread-safe.
>
> This really feels like, "I got bit by a bug someone else put into
> their code, so I'm going to assign responsibility for it to a third
> party who now should help the second party make their code better."
> Getting hit by bugs in other people's code isn't great, but this just
> isn't a reasonable response to that.
I'm just trying to bring C++ to a higher level. But that's fine if you
disagree, but I still disagree also.
Thanks,
>
> Um, no. That would break the performance of any number of applications
> that don't need thread safety or have handled it properly themselves.
You just turn it on or off depending on the need, defaulting to off
obviously.
> If you want a language where you can write anything and the system is
> designed to account for every possible contingency, that's fine. But
> that's not C++, nor is it going to be, nor should it become that. What
> you want is a higher-level language.
>
> And I'm pretty sure no language makes *everything* in its standard
> library thread-safe.
>
> This really feels like, "I got bit by a bug someone else put into
> their code, so I'm going to assign responsibility for it to a third
> party who now should help the second party make their code better."
> Getting hit by bugs in other people's code isn't great, but this just
> isn't a reasonable response to that.
I'm just trying to bring C++ to a higher level. But that's fine if you
disagree, but I still disagree also.
Thanks,
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