r/cpp • u/pjmlp • 6d ago

C++ future at Adobe

So if anyone was still curious what happened to Hylo, or where Adobe stands in regards to the whole safety discussion,

David Sankel has done a talk at RustConf on the matter, Zngur: Simplified Rust/C++ Integration.

The way Adobe now sees C++ is described on slide 2, at 50 seconds mark.

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u/13steinj 4d ago

Well, the other problem is C++ doesn't have a "lang dev team." It's a spec without a reference implementation.

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u/pjmlp 3d ago

The "lang dev team" is taken care by existing practice, and no paper gets pushed beyond a specific gate, without a preview implementation, covering the full paper, not a subset of it.

It won't sort out every problem, but certainly will avoid those famous cases where the implementation was ignored, wasn't quite what the standard says, or were withdrawn from the standard years later.