Exactly... that's my point.
I wanted this video to be a wake-up call to all of us.
We need to see the world from others point of view, to understand our problems.
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From: Richard Hodges via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org>
Date: 11/22/25 10:41 AM (GMT+01:00)
To: std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org
Cc: Richard Hodges <hodges.r@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [std-proposals] The most fair rant on C++
FWIW I think everyone on the committee should be forced to watch it.
While some of the complaints mentioned in the video are minor legacy issues from C, immeasurable damage has been done to the language in the name of:
- not wanting to introduce new keywords
- not wanting to change the language
- forcing features into the standard library when they should be language features
- not using version numbers in namespaces
- insisting on compatibility when a clean break would be better
I could go on.