Re: Flood of commits from July?

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 08:29:49AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 10/5/24 3:00 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 
> > This adds C++ code to the project!!  This is very concerning.  We
> > already have a lot of languages in the Texinfo project: TeX, Perl, C,
> > even JavaScript.  I have no desire to understand or maintain C++ code
> > in Texinfo as well.  It is also a lot for any new contributors in
> > the future to get up to speed with (as things are, there may never be
> > any such new contributors).  Can we please find some alternative
> > for whatever this C++ code is used for?
> 
> As you might suspect, my concern is the opposite: Too much C and Perl - and 
> not enough C++.
> There is no doubt in my mind that C++ is a more suitable language for the 
> texinfo project
> than C or Perl.  Nobody should be writing large chunks of code in C - it is 
> dangerous.
> 
> Luckily, C can be converted incrementally to C++: I did that for the DomTerm 
> backend.

And that is precisely what I DON'T want to happen.  I am not willing to
work on texi2any any more if parts of it start being written in C++.

It is possible that texi2any could be rewritten in a different language
in the future but I don't know what that language is.  The language might
not even have been invented yet.