The goal of software architecture is not to get a system working.

A system with bad architecture can work, but it will have a lot of problems in maintenance and scalability overall.

For me, software architecture has 2 goals:

1. Minimize the cost of the life cycle of the system, making it simple to understand, implement and maintain.

2. Maximize the productivity of the programmers, facilitating their work.

What do you think?

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New #cxxomfort Release.

The newest release, "Super Detection Feature Macros", brings the library up to code with SD6 feature macros, which are now also implemented by the library itself to announce features. The library now also implements basic std::span and std::expected support, and includes its own internal status_code system built from SG14.

Starting with this release, the library is now moved to a new host.

More notes in CHANGELOG.txt.

https://lambs.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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New #cxxomfort Release.

The newest release, "What'sdown with Facebook", primarily brings heightened feature detection using SD6 macros, and checks the library code for any interconnection with Facebook, just in case. It should now compile in a much larger array of compiler versions than previous versions, now that a lot of already-defined error points are avoided.

Also general system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

More notes in CHANGELOG.txt.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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New #cxxomfort Release.

The newest release, "Extended featureset of basic utils", primarily brings some tools like array, array_ref and typelist into the forefront. Also starting with this release cxxomfort uses SD-6 macros to detect features from C++14 onwards. Also general system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

More notes in CHANGELOG.txt.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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I haven't checked a C++ library I'm writing in like, two months, and for the heck of it I just... can't understand the template metaprogramming I tried to write. But the macros? Those I understand without issues.

Worse thing is, the thing compiles without errors and without warnings. So if there *is* something wrong... how the heck am I going to find it?

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New #cxxomfort Release.

The newest commit, "Welcome to 2020 + [0, 1) ", primarily focuses on improving the backports from <random>. In particular, it overrides some of the utilities from that header in MSVC and GCC TR1 that were hilariously broken. There are also some other small improvements, such as adding basic support for Digital Mars 8.5x.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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New #cxxomfort Release.

The new 2020-12-09 "Alatreon Expansion".

Includes a number of new benefits such as promoting array_ref, cstring_view and function_caller out of Supplements and into Utils; adds swap_if proposal, adds at_or, adds printf-like literals, and enhances compatibility with Clang 5.x and GCC 5.x.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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New #cxxomfort Release.

Technically a beta release, the newest commit primarily marks an update to enhance type_traits and hash compatibility, and test the foundations for conformance with MSVC 2015 onward. The next "release" release should include correct support for MSVC 2015 and 2017, Clang 5.x and 6.x, and better <random>.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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New #cxxomfort Release: the COVID Fonda Release.

Named as such because I thought it and coded it while eating empanadas, drinking vino tinto and "enjoying" confinement; this update primarily marks an update for the Doxygen documentation and the addition of a few C++20 features, most notably bind_front(), and the addition of some compatibility fixes to enhance support of MSVC 2013 and potentially MSVC 2015.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

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New Software Release:

I have updated #cxxomfort , my C++ backports library. Cxxomfort is header-only and focuses on backporting or emulating features of newer C++ Standards to previous Standards.

http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort

The new release contains fixes and improvements that extend support to Clang 5 and MSVC 2013, and adds a new features from C++17 and C++20 (most notably move-able numerics).

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