Re: [boost] Revitalization

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:14 AM Christopher Kormanyos via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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interested to hear your opinions as to> what happened over that time> period to cause such a trend. I believe that both Boost and C++ as wellas the general skill level in the communityall simply increased. C++ has become mainstream for thosewho want to use it. Also C++ (in its post C++11form) has gotten very good, as have compilers.The situation is much more comfortableand stable/reliable than in 98, even forembedded systems where great strigdestoward language adherence have been made.

Boost is mature.So the whole C++/Boost thingis just getting well-industrialized - as it should. C++ remains an excessively popularlanguage and Boost adds to its richness.But I think the traffic regarding openquestions and queries is simply reducedexactly by this established stability. Chris

I agree with this assessment. Boost was largely inspired by the lack of progress after C++98. But after all the new development since C++11 up to C++20, the language (together with the latest compilers) is much more modern, mature, stable and comfortable to use. Kudos to the people who have been involved in the standardization work over the past (more than) two decades.

On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 04:26:31 AM GMT+1, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost wrote:

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 7:37 AM Ivan Matek via Boost wrote:

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P.S. Regarding resources: I know money is considered dirty in most open source communities(I never understood that),

I don't think that's the sentiment. The thought I hear more often is that it's almost impossible to earn a living with OSS development.

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but if Boost would set up some way to support people doing work and resources were spend transparently I think that would be beneficial to the community and Boost itself.

That could, minimally, provide some funds for people. The logistics would be a bit complicated though.

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Again I might be too optimistic, mold linker author recently mentioned how he is unable to support mold development from donations, but you can count on mine 5$/month :)

There are at least 103 BoostORG members. Probably a fair number are not active -- and at least one passed away :-( But to give you an idea of how direct financing does and does work..

The C++ Alliance employs/pays a handful (8) of Boost programmers. And the benefits are clear. As what they work on is getting improvements (hash containers, json, url).

Others may try to get GitHub sponsorships to encourage their work. Here's a breakdown of the current sponsorship picture (this includes the C++ Alliance people also):

BoostORG Members (103) Sponsors: ("None" stands for not accepting sponsors.)

Andrzej Krzemieński (akrzemi1): None Alan de Freitas (alandefreitas): None Alain Miniussi (aminiussi): None Antony Polukhin (apolukhin): None Artyom Beilis (artyom-beilis): None Andrii Sydorchuk (asydorchuk): None Adam Wulkiewicz (awulkiew): None Barend Gehrels (barendgehrels): None Noel Belcourt (Belcourt): None Brandon Kohn (brandon-kohn): None brunolalande (brunolalande): None chhenning (chhenning): None chriskohlhoff (chriskohlhoff): None Christopher Kormanyos (ckormanyos): None Christian Mazakas (cmazakas): None Sebastian Redl (CornedBee): None Daryle Walker (CTMacUser): None Daniel Frey (d-frey): None Daniel James (danieljames): None Joel de Guzman (djowel): None Edward Diener (eldiener): None Eric Niebler (ericniebler): None Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola): None Alexander Grund (Flamefire): None John Fletcher (fletchjp): None Frank Mori Hess (fmhess): None Aaron Boman (frenchtoast747): None Glen Fernandes (glenfe): None René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot): 0 Dmitry (grisumbras): None Hans Dembinski (HDembinski): None headmyshoulder (headmyshoulder): None henry-ch (henry-ch): None Nathan Ridge (HighCommander4): None Hartmut Kaiser (hkaiser): None Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga): None Jeff Garland (JeffGarland): None Jeff Trull (jefftrull): None Jim King (jeking3): None Jeremy W. Murphy (jeremy-murphy): None Jesun Sahariar Firoz (jesunsahariar): None Joel Falcou (jfalcou): None Jürgen Hunold (jhunold): None joaquintides (joaquintides): None jofaber (jofaber): None jzmaddock (jzmaddock): None Agustín Bergé (K-ballo): None Kyle Lutz (kylelutz): None Andrey Semashev (Lastique): None Lorenzo Caminiti (lcaminiti): None Louis Dionne (ldionne): None Pranam Lashkari (lpranam): None Richard Hodges (madmongo1): None Marcin Zalewski (marcinz): None Mario Mulansky (mariomulansky): None Matthias Troyer (matthiastroyer): None Marshall Clow (mclow): None Prathamesh Tagore (meshtag): None MIRAL SHAH (miralshah365): None Michael Caisse (mjcaisse): None Menelaos Karavelas (mkaravel): None Marek Kurdej (mkurdej): None Mateusz Łoskot (mloskot): None morinmorin (morinmorin): None Nick (NAThompson): None Niall Douglas (ned14): 0 neilgroves (neilgroves): None Nikhar Agrawal (Nikhar): None Oliver Kowalke (olk): None Paul A. Bristow (pabristow): None Peter Zhang (paldar): None patak (patak-dev): 0 Peter Dimov (pdimov): None Daniel Pfeifer (purpleKarrot): None Raffi Enficiaud (raffienficiaud): None Robert Ramey (robertramey): None Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff): None rsdale (rsdale): None Ronald Garcia (rxg): None Abel Sinkovics (sabel83): None Sam Darwin (sdarwin): None Samuel Debionne (sdebionne): None Krystian Stasiowski (sdkrystian): None sehe (sehe): None Olzhas Zhumabek (simmplecoder): None Thomas Heller (sithhell): None spreadsort (spreadsort): None Stefan Seefeld (stefanseefeld): None swatanabe (swatanabe): None Tim Blechmann (timblechmann): None Jonathan Turkanis (turkanis): None Zach Laine (tzlaine): None Jeroen Habraken (VeXocide): None Vicente J. Botet Escriba (viboes): None Vinnie Falco (vinniefalco): None Vissarion Fisikopoulos (vissarion): None Vladimir Prus (vprus): None Mike Wazowski (yet-another-user): None David Bellot (yimyom): None Emil Dotchevski (zajo): None

Total members looking for sponsorship: 3 (out of 103

Total individuals sponsoring members: 0

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