[Tooling] Tooling experience? (was Re: Proposed mission)
Titus Winters
titus at google.com
Wed Apr 11 18:39:26 CEST 2018
Yep. And speaking as someone with 250M lines of legacy, I'm well aware of
the need to simplify and the need to leave things behind. See, for
instance, http://wg21.link/p0684 - but it has to be a balance.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:37 PM Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>
wrote:
> Titus Winters <titus at google.com> writes:
>
> > Yeah, one of the recognized strengths of C++ is that it doesn't leave all
> > of the legacy code behind, generally speaking.
>
> But there is a cost to this legacy support both in time it takes
> the committee to figure out the battalions of special cases as well
> as the resulting complexity which some of us have no capacity to
> handle and which will most likely limit the "toolability" of the
> end result.
>
> Boris
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