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by free_rms 2230 days ago
Pike's take is pretty unfair to C++11, given how ideas like 'rvalue references' held up REALLY well.

Yes, they were introducing even more complexity to a complex language, but how else are they supposed to incorporate better ways of doing things while maintaining backwards compatibility?

I suppose one could always just build a new language that doesn't have the historical cruft, but in this case that's Rust and not Go.