Well, well, well. Another C vs C++ holly war, really? > > In both cases, part of the motivation to change from C was to > > appeal to new developers - from what I remember of the > > discussions. > > Moving this to -hackers. Original thread at [1]. > > tl;dr: A C++ port of Postgres has been created, and several folks on > general have commented that this makes it easier to work with the > Postgres codebase. This potentially attracts more developers to the > project. I hope we can find a way to pull these folks into the fold.
Who are these "folks"? How many more developers it would attract _exactly_, not potentially? > People in core have complained that we don't have enough hackers > coming in (which I agree with). Part of that is lack of familiarity > with C. One again, which "people"? I've seen people complained that there is not enough code reviewers and testers. I doubt very much its something C++ will help with. > I think we can all agree that a C++ fork of Postgres would be a huge > waste of time, so the question becomes should core postgres start > supporting C++. > > Peter wrote a blog about this in 2013 that makes some good arguments > [2]; in particular "easing into" this by first officially supporting > C++ compilation. I also like the idea of investigating Rust. And I wrote a blog post (in Russian) [1] in 2016 why nobody should (if they can) write a new code in C++. In my opinion Rust looks way more promising. However I personally prefer to wait like 5 years before using a new and shiny technology. This is also something I blogged about (in Russian [2], translation [3]). > I realize there's little technical reason why we *need* C++ support. You are right, there is none. > The level if discipline applied to our codebase negates some of the > benefits of C++. But maintaining the discipline takes a lot of time > and effort, and makes it more difficult to attract new contributors. There are companies. They hire developers who write code. Doesn't really matters in which language. Long story short - I strongly believe you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. And probably create a few new ones. [1] http://eax.me/c-vs-cpp/ [2] http://eax.me/cpp-will-never-die/ [3] http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
