31 Dec
2012
31 Dec
'12
11:20 a.m.
On 30/12/12 22:08, Artyom Beilis wrote:
Probably I would find myself in minority or hated by many Boost **developers** but I would say clearly that there are hundreds thounds of C++ developerds and thousands of project that break because Boost breaks API.
HUGE amount of man hours are spent just because Boost breaks stuff.
I would like to provide a recent quote of Linus Torvalds regarding the kernel:
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? [...] The fact that you then try to make *excuses* for breaking user space,
Boost is not even a runtime. Comparing Boost and the Linux kernel makes absolutely no sense.