Oh no! The six dots was my most amusing contribution to the C++ standard, and now it’s going away. https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/03/11/cpp26-oxford-variadic-comma
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Doug Gregor
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mastodon 4.7.3Dad, husband, Swift language designer and Swift/C++/ObjC compiler implementor, Author, Generic Programming aficionado. He/him.
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If you work at the same place I do, today’s the last day for the 2:1 matching on charitable contributions with the maximum doubled. I usually do the annual donations to various groups in the fall, but to leverage this 2:1 match I’ve been leaving a comment with the donations to consider it part of the 2026-27 donation cycle. Nonprofits are generally happy to do so. If you’re in a position to do the same, please do. Think of it as a way to get your employer to support the causes you care about.
Emailed both of my senators to strongly oppose the SAVE act. Please do the same.
Oh look, the Party of Epstein has introduced the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act”. Of course it’s not at all
about helping children m, it’s a nationwide LGBTQ+ book ban, starting with schools. Please take a moment to tell your Representative to oppose HR 7661. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7661/text
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This should be an easy case to make in an election year: this court stripped away women’s rights that were “settled law” for 50 years. This court literally redefined the word “bribery” amidst an ongoing bribery scandal. This court has members who have monetarily and publicly supported the January 6th insurrection, yet won’t recuse from cases about it. They are so clearly corrupt, but unlike Trump, there’s no showmanship to mask the lies or the corruption. Target them, blame Trump for giving them power, and use that mandate to strip them of their power.
Every time I think realloc might be the answer, I look up its behavior and shake my head. Baking the memcpy into the semantics is just so, so bad.
The #SwiftLang compiler recently got support for control over which warnings get escalated to errors (or not). It also groups warnings and provides more user-facing documentation on what those warnings *mean*. However, we have about 350 warnings that haven't yet been assigned groups and documented, so the actual benefit of this feature is pretty small right now. If you're interested in helping triage these warnings and/or writing documentation for them, we'd love your help in improving the experience for Swift users everywhere. There's more information in this issue: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/79648
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@_inside@mastodon.social There’s a pitch up on the forums at https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-extensible-availability-checking/79308 The feature seems very appealing to help manage feature flags as well as separately-versioned libraries, but there’s still details to sort out.
![[Pitch] Extensible availability checking](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/1X/0a90dde98a223f5841eeca49d89dc9f57592e8d6.png)
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@datum@zeroes.ca @Paulatics@mstdn.ca @pluralistic@mamot.fr This is not a good argument for making the case against age verification in the OS. We’ve all accepted that you need to show ID when purchasing alcohol or cigarettes. Proponents of age-based verification can simply point to this existing rule and say it’s being updated for the digital age.
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@tockrock@hachyderm.io @siracusa@mastodon.social Yes, that’s a good one. His demo is important
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@jeremysiek@types.pl Can IU faculty conduct a no-confidence vote (or similar) against executive dean Rick Van Kooten? College administrators need to feel pressure when they undermine faculty in this manner.