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I recently created https://arewemodulesyet.org/ to track module adoption in the c++ ecosystem. I used how often a vcpkg manifest file changed to get a rough estimate how popular a library is.

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Thank you very much for this resource! Reading through the article and the discussion here I was really surprised why nobody discussed using actually existing modules, this clarifies how far that is from a solution.

You should really post this as a separate Show HN story!

"Estimated finish by the year 5134" made me chuckle

And we just improved the waiting time by about 1000 years, by adding flux to the list of supported projects. But sarcasm aside, yes this is a bit of criticism of the c++ ecosystem that moves a bit too slow. Many libraries pride themselves with only using c++11/14.

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