[andrepd]

>this accelerated process of mutating the language

Oh we can't be talking about the same language x) C++ moves fast? They took until 2017 to remove trigraphs for crying out loud! Absolutely nothing in C++>=11 breaks anything in the language.

[rosshemsley]

Fair point. My feeling has been that the committee is trying to make the language safe (as is now the fashion) by adding increasingly more features, with the intention of deprecating old workflows aggressively.

But the language complexity is now so significant that a new dev would take years to fully understand both "old" C++ and new C++, and how to make them work well together