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jen20 on July 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [vide...

I don’t know the specific reasons (and the pull request referenced in the merge commit appears to have been deleted), but my guess is that the extra complexity vs using modern C++ features was not worthwhile to the core FDB team.

pjmlp on July 30, 2025 [–]

Which could be a good reasoning, assuming it is being enforced somehow, in regards to modern best practices, which is usually the main issue.

jen20 on July 30, 2025 | [–]

Indeed - my guess is that there is a policy of "improve things as you touch that area of the codebase" rather than blanket rewriting of working code going on.

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