Hi Stephanie, I was going to avoid being OT, but Bertrand wrote: > > And since Groff is getting distributed widely and C++ is only > > getting more and more popular > > Little disgression (of course, personal opinion, nothing objective): I > think that C++ will face strong competition from new languages like > Rust or Go, and decline.
I agree. C++ has been doomed for ages, eschewed by many, including those that took a look at it and then stuck with C, and that's before many more warts were added as it chased the language feature du jour. > I'm primarily a C developer, but if I would need to start a new > project I would prefer Go over C++, unless it's really low-level or > embedded software, in which case I would prefer C over C++. Ditto. Eric Raymond wrote similarly recently. _The big break in computer languages_ — http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7724 > Also, groff code is quite old and looks more like 'C with class' and > doesn't use templates Yes, that's in it's favour, as you say. > Again, if you feel you are interested in developing into groff I think > you should not wait such a long time. There are some big topics And some smaller ones, I expect. I haven't look for a while, but a test suite that had regressions would help catch bugs like -mm moving the footer, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/groff/+bug/42764 Methods could include comparing the intermediate output of `groff -Z', and rendering to pixmaps. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
