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		jen20 4 months ago \| 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 4 months ago [–]

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 4 months ago | [–]

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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