alt Hacker NewsWhat you wrote there is just an unsafe way to do std::variant. This has nothing to do with what the blog post is about.
The blog is about Open polymorphism. Where the list of compatible Object can be extended dynamically (Which is handy for some type of error report for instance).
You can do that since forever in C++ (Since the first support for inheritance), the only thing std::polymorphism brings is the ability to do it without dynamic allocations, emplacement new or lifetime problems.
> This has nothing to do with what the blog post is about.
It's an alternative way to solve the problem presented, which trivially allows you to make a std::vector<Event> (the whole point the article is building up to).
> the only thing std::polymorphism brings is the ability to do it without dynamic allocations, emplacement new or lifetime problems.
Which the version I showed has none of.