On 10/8/24 9:25 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
The question for me is not, "is C++ a good language". It is, "does
using C++ in Texinfo threaten the long-term future of the Texinfo project".
I can imagine a situation, hypothetically speaking, where a project gets
so large, so complicated, written using such a heterogeneous bunch of
languages and libraries, and with so few active contributors who understand
the system, that it receives no more updates, as the barrier for contributing
has become too high. That is project death.
Fair enough. I agree that large chunks of C *and* C++ *and* Perl is a bit much.
I do note that at this point tp/Texinfo contains substantially more C code than
Perl,
as judged by wc. If Patrice (or someone else) gets another burst of energy to
convert
the rest of the Perl code to C, I think that would be great. But even better if
he
felt free to use C++ constructs.
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