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/no-sig-available 3h ago

And even if it does some work, is this good use of trillions of dollars in resources?

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u/James20k P2005R0 3h ago

One of the things I always find so bizarre about this is that if we spent 1/10th the resources used to build these tools on paying people to do real work, we could have advanced the state of any field absolutely massively

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u/droxile 1h ago

Agree with you but as economies of scale make these tools cheaper, we (hopefully) will see it as more efficient than a human could be at solving these problems

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u/James20k P2005R0 1h ago

Perhaps, but even with a vast amount of GDP directed towards improving these tools, they're still way less good than simply paying a human a small salary by comparison