c++ is horrific

I’m poking at some c++ after not touching it for a decade. c++11 has apparently gotten roughly as capable as java pre 2000; it now can create threads! But the error messages. Oh, the error messages

$ clang++ -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ src/test.cpp
In file included from src/test.cpp:4:
In file included from /usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/thread:93:
In file included from /usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/functional:465:
/usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/memory:1677:31: error: calling a private constructor of class 'std::__1::thread'
            ::new((void*)__p) _Up(_VSTD::forward<_Args>(__args)...);
                              ^
/usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/memory:1604:18: note: in instantiation of function template specialization
      'std::__1::allocator<std::__1::thread>::construct<std::__1::thread, const std::__1::thread &>' requested here
            {__a.construct(__p, _VSTD::forward<_Args>(__args)...);}
                 ^
/usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/memory:1488:14: note: in instantiation of function template specialization
      'std::__1::allocator_traits<std::__1::allocator<std::__1::thread> >::__construct<std::__1::thread, const std::__1::thread &>' requested here
            {__construct(__has_construct<allocator_type, pointer, _Args...>(),
             ^
/usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/vector:1471:25: note: in instantiation of function template specialization
      'std::__1::allocator_traits<std::__1::allocator<std::__1::thread> >::construct<std::__1::thread, const std::__1::thread &>' requested here
        __alloc_traits::construct(this->__alloc(),
                        ^
src/test.cpp:36:13: note: in instantiation of member function 'std::__1::vector<std::__1::thread, std::__1::allocator<std::__1::thread> >::push_back'
      requested here
    threads.push_back(t);
            ^
/usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/thread:261:5: note: implicitly declared private here
    thread(const thread&);
    ^
1 error generated.

what was the cause of this monstrosity?

std::vector< std::thread > threads;
// [...]
std::thread t(thread_func, i);
threads.push_back(t);

so yeah, you can’t copy thread objects, enforced by having a private constructor. Still, the amount of knowledge it takes to translate from the error message to the error is pretty amazing.

Stochastic Nonsense

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