[PATCH RFC] RFC: allow optional C++ 11 extensions with pybind11 for performance code

[Sean Farley]

Laurent Charignon <lcharignon at fb.com> writes:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Laurent Charignon <lcharignon at fb.com>
> # Date 1454965979 28800
> #      Mon Feb 08 13:12:59 2016 -0800
> # Branch stable
> # Node ID 3c1ae9c7e93e8556fa7470919108a02bd989d040
> # Parent  61f4d59e9a0be4e25c1aa016db1a80a540a9d337
> RFC: allow optional C++ 11 extensions with pybind11 for performance code

I am very much against this as I am also against writing code in rust /
go / etc. Mercurial is a *system tool*. When cloning code on IBM
BlueGene it is annoying as hell to have random dependencies sneak in
like this. For reference, IBM BlueGene has had problem with codes that
use C++.

C is much, much, much more portable. In fact, I would like to go even
further and break out the C code we have into a shared library (for cffi
sweetness).