21 Jul
2017
21 Jul
'17
3:55 p.m.
Niall Douglas wrote:
Well, that's just ignorant and self serving elitism.
Remarkable how much this ignorant and self-serving elitism could do for the C++ community over the years. Surely by accident or by mistake.
A steering committee of non-Boost-developers stands a far better chance of...
... changing Boost into non-Boost, because everyone feels the need to remake things that are alien to him in his own image. Boost has been created and has been maintained (not just in a technical sense) by developers, and what it is today reflects it. A steering committee of non-Boost-developers is capable of producing something good, but this good thing will no longer be Boost, except by name.