Maybe we also need new people to shake the tree and take an active part to replace those who are now less active.
C++ and Boost are not dead, just maturing.
I came to Boost late, and I am already a middle aged developer.
C++, the ISO/IEC CPP standardization process and Boost
are maturing in the normal fashion.
I suspect that C++ is gradually moving toward a state of
institutionalization --- such as Forttran77 in the late '80s
and early '90s.
Institutionalization is not a bad thing.
It's just another game. An established, institutionalized
language provides a powerful tool for millions of developers
around the world --- and that is cool.
Fresh new faces will (and do) come along --- such as those
stellar candidates working on GSoC 2014. But some kind of
a hay-day for C++ might not be in the cards for a while, or even
any more for that matter.
Old gurus contribute at a more relaxed pace. Fresh, new faces
come along with less frequency. The language is stable, powerful,
and established. It's just a normal progression in the maturing
of a great language.
My $.02
Cheers, Chris
On Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:34 PM, Christophe Henry
For example, boost-users has a posting rate nearly a third that of before 2011.
Regarding this, my personal (weakly substantiated) perception is that people are migrating to sexier forums such as stackoverflow to get the same help. For instance, 5-6 years back I could get about 1 question a week about Boost.MultiIndex on the users list. Now it's like 1 question every 3 months here, but 1-2 a week in stackoverflow instead. Blame the crude interface a mailing list provides, registration entry barriers etc.
As for the decline in the dev list, it looks more serious and there's no migration theory that could mitigate it. Also, I feel like the maturity level of discussions has fallen :-(
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Frankly I don't see this that negative, at least not yet. Maybe the decrease of volume is caused by the fact that libraries most people were using are now part of the STL? I consider this might change as soon as the mental barrier we're having about writing C++11/14 only libraries goes and new cool libraries are written using the new language features. I'll try to do just this next week at CppNow. Maybe we also need new people to shake the tree and take an active part to replace those who are now less active. Cheers, Christophe _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost