FWIW, and errors aside, I think I agree with the general sentiment. Things added to the C++ library ossify. The ABI concerns, and the general unwillingness to do anything about it, is a big reason why Google largely exited the C++ standard business.
But the conspiracy brained part of me can't help to think that part of this is sour grapes. Vinnie contributed a lot to the failed proposal to add networking (loosely based on ASIO) to the C++ standard. That proposal eventually lost out to the sender/receiver library[0] which is getting added in C++26. That still doesn't have actual networking, but lays the groundwork.
It remains to be seen how well sender/receiver turns out. Given ranges (another Niebler addition), I'm not super optimistic.
But the conspiracy brained part of me can't help to think that part of this is sour grapes. Vinnie contributed a lot to the failed proposal to add networking (loosely based on ASIO) to the C++ standard. That proposal eventually lost out to the sender/receiver library[0] which is getting added in C++26. That still doesn't have actual networking, but lays the groundwork.
It remains to be seen how well sender/receiver turns out. Given ranges (another Niebler addition), I'm not super optimistic.
[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/execution.htm...