Feedback welcome on early version of `stdlib` (e.g. UTF-8 console in Windows)

[Alf P. Steinbach]

I welcome feedback on the current early version of `stdlib`, which
provides e.g. UTF-8 console i/o via `cout` etc. in Windows.

More generally `stdlib` aims to provide an easier to use view of the C++
standard library, a view with far fever header inclusions required for
common small programs, and where things Just Work™ by default.

Note: I haven't tested anything in *nix-land yet, so those claims in the
README file are entirely unsubstantiated as yet, but it will get there.


https://github.com/alf-p-steinbach/stdlib


Cheers!,

- Alf

[Mr Flibble]

"stdlib" is an egregious choice of name, it suggests both hubris on your
part and clashes with the common community term of "C++ stdlib" which
refers to the C++ Standard Library; I suggest you rename it to something
that more resembles what it is/what it does.

/Flibble

[Alf P. Steinbach]

I chose `stdlib` because that says exactly what the library is: a
wrapper/view of the standard library, no more and no less. With the most
ungood behavior of the standard library fixed, that's true. So maybe
`bugfixed_stdlib` would be better, but that's quite verbose! :-o

If someone who uses my library say they are using the “standard library”
or “stdlib”, then that would communicate exactly what they are using,
namely the C++ standard library. That's why I think it's a good name.

Thanks for the heads-up about what some people might think. However, I
don't really give a turd about whether some conformists might think I'm
a megalomaniac or whatever to use a name that in their mind is
associated with something beyond my place. I say, ignore the idiots. :)


Cheers!,

- Alf

[Mr Flibble]

On 10/06/2017 22:29, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> ungood behavior of the standard library fixed, that's true. So maybe
> `bugfixed_stdlib` would be better, but that's quite verbose! :-o

Based on that the hubris I mentioned seems to be real.

/Flibble

[Alf P. Steinbach]

This seems to be an uninformed person's opinion that the standard
library is perfect, that the workarounds and fixes are not needed.

Oh well.


Cheers!,

- Alf