Re: [capy] Andrzej's feedback

On 7/5/26 1:46 AM, Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost wrote:
> Hi Everyone,

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> 
> Regards,
> &rzej;

Another incredibly insightful review by &rzel !!!  Just a couple o 
observations.

&drez observations put their finger on a fundamental problem: C++ 
doesn't have the right primitive to support this kind of library which 
is in much demand.  When this happens, we often respond by making a 
library in spite of this.  Things can be made to work.  But this 
ultimately unsatisfactory.  Having several libraries which have been 
made to work, hopefully should give a hint what small enhancement to the 
language is missing to make these kinds of libraries easier to write 
correctly.  This is job of the standards committe aided by our brightest 
and imaginative minds.  Go to it guys!

But I think it's long past time for boost to stop focusing in terms of 
creating libraries that will one day be added to the standard.  The 
standards process, though very useful in the past, but has reached the 
point where it's a victim of it's success.  Its enhancements (save rare 
cases) complicate the language and library more than they contribute in 
terms of utility.  Many result in a net loss to the future of C++. 
Boost can/will continue to be a main source of new libraries and try to 
set the standard from design, coding, testing, review, education, and 
documentation of C++ libraries. Let the standards committee and the 
companies who support them do what they will.  It's less and less 
relevant in the future.

Robert Ramey

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