On: Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (20...

[shaklee3]

To be fair to the author, std::optional was added in C++17, which came after this blog post was written. I agree, maybe if he had written it today his views would be different.

[gpderetta → shaklee3]

And yet boost optional has existed for a good half of forever. C++ programmers have been writing they're own versions (maybe, fallible, etc) for the other half.

[jcelerier → shaklee3]

But there have been <optional> implementations around for more than a decade