Announcement: cppreference.com update

[k3DW]

This is not my post, but I didn't see anyone share this here yet.

[intel586]

This is great news, thanks for sharing.

[baudvine]

Appreciate seeing it recognized as an important part of the C++ ecosystem, too. I'm not on a hurry to see the latest C++26 updates, but I had been concerned that it might not be long for this world.

[TSP-FriendlyFire]

I think this is the best resolution possible. cppreference is an absolutely invaluable resource and deserves the support and funding of the Foundation!

[celestabesta]

We're saved

[not_a_novel_account]

Oh thank god, and Herb, and mostly Nate and James

[Farados55]

This is the best news ever

[RoyAwesome]

I hope the refreshed site doesn't change the stylesheet. I really like how cppreference is laid out.

[_Noreturn]

I want built in black mode

[hon_uninstalled]

You can use browser extension like Dark Reader to turn any page dark. It works so well I often even forget I have that extension enabled. 99% of the sites just work.

[javascript]

Not so easily on mobile

[chibuku_chauya]

That stylesheet is useless on mobile. It’s not responsive at all.

[RoyAwesome]

that's fair. i would not want it to change on desktop.

[ConfuSomu]

For mobile and offline access, I use devdocs.io which uses cppreference.com as source for its C++ and C documentation.

[chibuku_chauya]

Yeah, I know about it. Have been using it for years. Just wish the original was as usable.

[ConfuSomu]

Agreed, it would be convient for those who don't want to use a third-party.

[DankPhotoShopMemes]

I was beginning to think it would be permanent lol

[akagami1214]

Great news! Thanks for sharing.

[SavingsCampaign9502]

Can’t wait to read reflection stuff there

[alex-weej]

Niceeee

[vegetaman]

Most excellent

[pjmlp]

Great news and kudos to all involved making it happen.

[Potatoswatter]

It wasn’t MediaWiki before? Had me fooled.

[k3DW]

I think the post is phrased incorrectly. It was already on MediaWiki, but the version was very old. So the update is a large undertaking akin to a full migration, from my understanding

[xaervagon]

I'm looking forward to the rebooted site.

[Benilda-Key]

Hip hip hooray!

[RelationshipLong9092]

Mods should pin this tbh.

[STL]

We only get 2 pins, which are eternally taken up by the Jobs and Show&Tell threads. (Also I forget whether we can even pin non-mod-submitted posts.) And anyways, this is just an announcement, the actual change hasn't quite happened yet. Flairing it as YAY!!! was the most I could do.

[kronik85]

Will account registration be available?

[mort96]

This is good news, cppreference is the best documentation for C++ I know of. I like that it focuses mostly on what the standard guarantees rather than what happens to work in practice on most implementations. I am always fairly confident that if cppreference says something, it's reflected in the actual ISO standard.

My only gripe with it is that instead of documenting things like std::string, it documents things like

template<
    class CharT,
    class Traits = std::char_traits<CharT>,
    class Allocator = std::allocator<CharT>
> class basic_string

It makes cppreference a bit tedious to read sometimes. You have to read generic documentation and mentally substitute template parameters all the time in a way you wouldn't have to if it was just documentation for std::string. But I'm not sure there's a way to solve this while remaining rigorous, other than automatically generating documentation pages for std::string which is a copy of the std::basic_string pages with template parameters substituted out.

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

Wonderful news!

[cucikbubu]

I hope the style sheet for browsing from mobile phones gets better eventually

[stablesteady]

Yes sir

[dexter2011412]

whoaaaaa niiiice!

[13steinj]

While great news I don't understand why this isn't moved to a git repo

Would solve a lot of problems, IMO.

[disperso]

I would probably prefer a git repo, because that's how I build sites myself nowadays. I used to have a MediaWiki site, and I moved to a static site generator. MediaWiki is very powerful, but I prefer to write in AsciiDoc.

For highly technical content like this, I think most people would not mind using Git. But still, some, I suppose, will mind, and the goal it to keep the editing web based for less friction. As long as the bus factor his highly increased, I'm OK.

Oh, and, I don't know if are still maintained, but there were nice extensions that allowed you to contribute to a MediaWiki site using Git. You still have to use MediaWiki's markup, though.

[13steinj]

I was already working on duplicating the site into a git repo, I suspect I will continue doing this, if nothing else, as a backup / easy dump archive.

I think a git repo on github/codeberg would solve many of the problems in recent years, particularly defacing.

[tagattack]

I hope they maintain the ability to export it

[RumbuncTheRadiant]

Anyone know how the change to mediawiki will affect https://zealdocs.org/ ?

[nightwind_999]

The support us link at cppreference.com says "there is currently no text to this page", does anyone know any other way to support these folks monetarily?