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Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

50 pointsby ibobevlast Friday at 9:34 PM31 commentsview on HN

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CJeffersontoday at 5:33 AM

Wow, that might be the worst name for a project I’ve ever seen. I think every programmer who sees this is going to assume it’s a Python thing.

With regards the library itself —- I think it’s generally known the c++ standard library is a poorly designed mess in places but if you make an entirely new one you lose all the software already written, at which point why use C++ nowadays?

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pjmlptoday at 7:15 AM

> C++ is actually very fast to compile, the slowdowns come mostly from the way the standard library is implemented.

Only if using classical headers, std as module is already a reality on VC++.

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JdeBPtoday at 7:44 AM

Given what is discussed in the commentary to the post, I wonder whether the author would be amenable to some Doxygen.

squirrelloustoday at 7:18 AM

Love to see someone implementing pathlib in c++. It is what stdfs could have been.

Asookatoday at 8:49 AM

Would be helpful to show how this compares to other C++ std replacements, e.g. Abseil and Folly.

olq_plotoday at 9:46 AM

Dumb. This is what modules are for. Also, the stdlib is extremely well designed. It considers edge cases most people never think about. Source: I am a Boost Developer.

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