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Oh hey, that's my post.

HI HACKER NEWS! Excited to see you!!! Ping me if you find typos.

(Also jeez, writing this took way too long and I spent too much time editing it trying to cram everything from Cpp2, the Google governance issue, member access operators as a case study, some historical bits, etc. into the post.)

EDIT: One of the most interesting things for me is that (so far) no one complained about the lack of Carbon code examples.

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FWIW, I thought the bits on governance and history provided much needed context. Great post.

Thanks a lot! When writing something like this it can be hard to keep in mind what your average reader is familiar with.

"Do I need to get into the history and the structural process of the C++ Standard Committee? I'm sure everyone already knows about that, right?"

Thanks for the post, I enjoyed reading it.

There is a small typo in this sentence: "As long as we’re willing to say that Carbon is is about reducing the reliance on the C++ Standard Committee ...". There are two "is".

It's a hangover from the ill-fated Clinton programming language, where you repeat an operator (such as "is") to ensure there is no ambiguity about what your intention is.

Did you mean to write "there is is no ambiguity ..."?

Too early for that pun, it works better at the end as a punchline of sorts, "ensure there is not ambiguity about what your intention is is."

You mentioned that std::unique_ptr had a runtime cost (versus a raw pointer). I had always assumed the compiler would optimize any of that away (if you have the default deleter). Could you explain what you meant?

I assume this is the example presented here: https://youtu.be/rHIkrotSwcc?t=1050

Oh thanks! That’s really depressing though, I feel like my whole world view has been shattered lmao

Technically kind of interesting ... but as a writing piece it's a mess of mushy, roundabout, haphazard points. With every line I read I can just hear my uni English prof in my ear yelling.

I can live with that, I think. I'd like to believe that all of the points are relevant.

The issue is that I had to cram them all in somehow, without making the article excessively long. I'm open to criticism, though!

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