Modules seem much more important than either of those. You know where you include a platform header and suddenly you can no longer call a variable "min" because said platform header decided that should be a macro and it's giving you cryptic errors because what you see isn't what the compiler sees.
I've written too much C++ to be dumbfounded by that stuff but that doesn't mean I'm not still bitter about it.
> Modules seem much more important than either of those.
Modules solve an immediate and obvious pain: unacceptably long compile times. Sum types are more profound. Anyone having tasted an ML derivative (as I have) would dearly miss them. Seriously, once you've tasted sum types, you'll want to use them everywhere: option types, error returns, abstract syntax trees (JSON, XML, compilers…), you name it, sum types probably solve it.
Sum types are no panacea, but if you squint your eyes just right they're pretty damn close.
I've tasted sum types and if I was trying to be snarky I'd say so have millions of Java enterprise developers who fill their code with a healthy dose of instanceof and null :)
It is somewhat anathema to the OO idea and brings lots of (runtime) implementation concerns so I can understand the delay.
They would be deprecated only if the features you are missing are actually on their way into the language. Are they? I agree those features would be nice, but I've never seen any mention of them actually planned.
Fastly is simply putting up a status page so they aren't contacted about issues, and letting them know it's about DYN. And they are having internal issues with communications like zendesk.
It's interesting how wrong the speculations were about robbers. Their experts thought it was a Hollywood style "Reservoir Dogs" robbery with precision planning, recruitment from the "dark web" and that the loot was likely already out of the country (possibly hidden up a horses ass). One guy even speculated that they tripped the alarm on purpose, to see what the response would be.
What turned out was pretty far from that. Still, it was worth the watch, for the recreation of drilling through the wall, decent into the elevator shaft and safe deposit box smashing.
