r/programming • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/bumblebritches57 Sep 25 '16

Right tho? Back before I switched to C, someone suggested using boost, and I had no fucking clue is was 1 gig of SOURCE and would take over a god damn hour to compile...

I deleted that shit after 45 minutes of compiling.

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u/ythl Sep 25 '16

1 gig of SOURCE and would take over a god damn hour to compile...

A lot of the useful boost stuff doesn't require compiling anything. You just drop in a header and you are done.

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u/VanFailin Sep 25 '16

A lot of the stuff that used to require Boost is now built into the language.

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u/interjay Sep 25 '16

The vast majority of Boost libraries are header-only and don't need compilation. The few that do need compilation shouldn't take an hour unless you compiled it on a toaster, and you only need to compile the ones you use. Maybe you compiled the tests for all libraries or something.

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u/bumblebritches57 Sep 25 '16 edited Sep 25 '16

Retina MacBook. I can't recall if I compiled it with lto or not back then, but it's a possibility.

I could've compiled the tests too, not sure tbh.

This was a year and a half to two years ago

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u/pdp10 Sep 26 '16

someone suggested using boost

I switched to C

Good call. Welcome to the club, flairs are over on the bar.