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Obviously we will still maintain it, but how useful will it be, once the C++ standard guarantees is.
What about synchronization primitives (Mutex, conditional variables) with advent of the new standard?
Do you consider pthread harder to master as opposed to std::thread?
C isn’t going away. POSIX isn’t going away. Multithreaded code written in C for POSIX isn’t going away. So pthreads isn’t going away.
Many implementations of std::thread will use pthreads under the hood.
“The Pthreads API is defined in the ANSI/IEEE POSIX 1003.1 – 1995 standard.” — POSIX Threads Programming https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/