Fortunately, it’s been ~4 years since I had to tangle with it directly, so I don’t remember my specific pain points. I happily fucked off back to C for work and Rust for fun.

I am a firmware level guy, so my work is in C/assembly, but for a while I was tasked with enabling a new framework to run some of our low level diags. Most of that work was in a Linux kernel module (still C obviously) but I also had to do the higher level interface and, yeah, the people that started the new framework did it in C++17 and then 20 by the time I got involved.

I don’t think there was a subset per se, but like any biggish codebase there were idiomatic ways of doing everything.

Ironically, the new framework is now almost 10 years old and the framework it was meant to replace (which is dogshit C++03) is still puttering around with a skeleton crew of maintainers.

C++ has become more and more unhinged as it tries to warp itself into a language with every possible feature. I was forced to get up to date with C++20 at work for awhile and it’s miserable.

The article mentions how much C++ runs modern software, and I won’t argue that point, but I really wonder how many of those key pieces of software, browsers, game engines, web servers etc. are still basically C++03 codebases.

Inventor of timsort, RIP

Uh, what? The Ayn Rand garbage philosophy? I’ve never heard that and don’t see how that jibes with a free, crowd sourced encyclopedia…

Damn right.

I’m a couple years younger than you, but a lot of this resonated for me. Custom installers were some of my early inspirations for making apps that didn’t have the traditional gray box aesthetic.

However, I will say that Kenshin was a thing in the US. Samurai X was only the name of the OG movies where he was still lethal AFAIK.

This better not awaken anything in me…