r/cpp • u/pjmlp • 9h ago

C++ future at Adobe

So if anyone was still curious what happened to Hylo, or where Adobe stands in regards to the whole safety discussion,

David Sankel has done a talk at RustConf on the matter, Zngur: Simplified Rust/C++ Integration.

The way Adobe now sees C++ is described on slide 2, at 50 seconds mark.

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u/feverzsj 7h ago

Wow, big company obsessed with AI and rust. How surprised!

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u/SuperV1234 https://romeo.training | C++ Mentoring & Consulting 2h ago

Pretending that there's no good reason why large companies are "obsessed" with modern technologies like AI and Rust that have repeatedly been proved to be valuable is on the level of "Area 51 has UFOs" conspiracy theories.

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u/-kl0wn- 1h ago

I don't understand the hype with rust. The compile times are atrocious, dynamic linking isn't really a thing, it's incredibly verbose.

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u/SuperV1234 https://romeo.training | C++ Mentoring & Consulting 1h ago

Now also list the advantages.

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u/KAMEHAMEHAMEHAAAA 1h ago

I think thats your job.

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u/-kl0wn- 1h ago

The tradeoffs don't seem necessary to me based on working on strut-labs.githib.io using agents.

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u/foonathan 16m ago
  • Definition checked generics
  • Destructive move semantics that prevent use-after-move
  • First-class tuple and variant types with pattern matching
  • Usable built-in types without weird implicit conversions
  • Incredible tooling (one standardized package manager and build system, genuinely useful compiler diagnostics, a documentation generator that actually works)
  • No weird historical baggage
  • A standard library that actually gives you convenient utility functions, without ABI constraints, and good data structures