22 pointsby alexjurkiewicz5 hours ago4 comments
  • tialaramex23 minutes ago
    Over in r/cpp there were interesting (presumably largely thought up by actual people not just spew from a model) ideas for language reform hiding as "Profiles" for C++ 29 or beyond

    https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1tja9zr/c_profiles_a_c...

  • stephbookan hour ago
    > Every entry below points at a real paper that the working group adopted. None of these are arguments. They are admissions in writing.

    I smell AI. If you don't write it, I don't read it.

    • anematodean hour ago
      > This is what fifteen years of standards work on a five-letter keyword ['volatile'] looks like.

      How many letters are in the word 'volatile' ?

      • bsderan hour ago
        Woof. Didn't even bother to proofread the AI slop. Wow.

        I think we need a "Flag AI Slop" button.

        • delusionalan hour ago
          That's just the "Flag" button.
    • yellow_lead29 minutes ago
      Although it's AI, I am surprised how many references it added correctly.
    • Traubenfuchsan hour ago
      Better get used to it, the art of writing without AI assistance is dead. You will occasionally find some of it like a truffle in the woods, but that was it. And even if the next generation will attempt stringing a few sentences together by hand it will sound like AI, because they grew up spending more time talking to AI than anyone else.
      • scared_togetheran hour ago
        I attend a local writer’s group in my area, where people write in person within a time limit. The art of writing without AI assistance still lives, but it’s not online and probably not discussing the C++ standard library.
      • darthoctopusan hour ago
        this kind of overt inevitabilism is complicity in the death of good writing.
      • 1313ed01an hour ago
        If I want to read a LLM's "opinion" on some subject I just prompt it myself. Inserting humans as intermediaries that pretend they wrote something is dishonest at best. Future generations will hopefully see through that and stop sign generated texts with fake human names.
  • oezian hour ago
    I left C++ almost 10 years ago but I still remember how surprised and frustrated I was when auto_ptr was deprecated and then removed from the C++ standard as we had built our dependency injection framework and progress primitive on it.
    • kennu13 minutes ago
      Wasn't unique_ptr added as a migration path away from auto_ptr to provide similar functionality more safely? I've never used them but was just reading the history.
  • an hour ago
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