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Converting a large mathematical software package written in C++ to C++20 modules

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141 points vblanco | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 13:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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KingLancelot ◴[01 Jul 25 19:08 UTC] No.44437077[source]▶
To be fair, C++’s modules make no sense, just like their namespaces that span multiple translation units.

It’s just more heavy clunky abstractions for the sake of abstractions.

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1. pjmlp ◴[02 Jul 25 08:51 UTC] No.44441445[source]▶
It makes lots of sense to anyone used to large scale software development.

It is no accident that Ada, Java, .NET, and oldies like Delphi, Eiffel, Modula-2 and Modula-3 have similar approaches.

Even the way D and Python modules and packages work, or the whole crates and modules approach in Rust.

Naturally folks not used to Web scale don't get these kind of features.