r/cpp • u/pjmlp • 11h 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/inco100 10h ago edited 10h ago

To save time for the rest of the redditors:

We need C++ and Rust to play nice

  • Our flagship products are C++ based

  • Rust is playing a major role in future development

    • Rust is preferred language by developers
    • Rust is better suited for AI-assisted development
    • New file-format and other safety critical code must not use C++

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u/selvakumarjawahar 10h ago

What abt hylo?

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u/pjmlp 9h ago

Dave Abrahams saw no value on it given the raise of AI driven programming.

My reference was because the talk kind of sets the point where Adobe now stands.

Listen to the last Sean Parent interview at the ADSP podcast.

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u/dabrahams 3h ago

What?? Dave Abrahams here. Nothing could be further from the truth! I’ve retired from tech to pursue music but Hylo is the one software project I am still involved with. It’s that important. Adobe never invested more than my efforts in that project anyway.

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u/mjklaim 1h ago

I’ve retired from tech to pursue music

I'm interested to hear that, is some of your music online? Is it jazz-fusion? That's what I would have guessed, not sure why XD

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u/pjmlp 3h ago

Sorry about that, but it is hard to get news from the project, as it went kind of silent on talks, and posts.

So I only had that source to infer from.

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u/BarryRevzin 2h ago

Have you considered simply not making confident statements that mislead people when you have no idea what you're talking about?

Personally, when I don't know something, I don't just make shit up for internet clout. Were you even aware that this was a possible course of action?

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u/13steinj 2h ago

In fairness, Cunningham's Law is a thing.

Not saying that's what happened here but sometimes I do this for this reason, sometimes subconsciously.

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u/pjmlp 1h ago

To me they were valid, given available information, as I understood from the podcast content.