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Re: [std-proposals] The most fair rant on C++

From: Jonathan Wakely <cxx_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:18:34 +0000
On Sat, 22 Nov 2025, 18:55 Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals, <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM organicoman via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > For your last question, i really don't know the answer. That's why i
> started this thread, in hope that i gather some motivated people for the
> task of rebooting C++.
>
> OK, this is not just you using bad-faith arguments filtered through
> the lens of a stochastic parrot. It's you using bad-faith arguments
> filtered through the lens of a stochastic parrot, for the purpose of
> using a forum intended for one purpose as a rallying cry for your
> personal pet project.
>
> This is just my opinion, but I feel like if you're the sort of person
> who thinks that they have to use disingenuous means to manufacture
> support for your specific project, then your project probably isn't
> going to work out. If there's merit to the project, then you shouldn't
> have any trouble arguing that merit honestly and openly. If it's a
> good project that people need, then you should have no trouble
> attracting talented people to help you out.
>
> The fact that you felt that you had to smuggle it in is... revealing.
>

I don't think they started the thread with that intention. I think the idea
of creating a new language was a result of the thread, and it's probably
not actually going to happen anyway.

But the whole thread seems like another waste of time.




> > I will be back here again, for some updates.
>
> Thanks, but no thanks. Unless you intend to propose your reboot for
> standardization (and you're somewhere far enough along for that to
> actually be relevant), this is not the place to discuss it. We don't
> need "updates".
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