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> As with C APIs, the people who make C++ APIs, know how to make them robust as well.

It seems too optimistic for me. I use Gentoo, and I believe that the only reason I have no such troubles is Gentoo with all its maintainers who do a great work of testing different combinations of libraries. And of course `ebuild` that can rebuild libc.so without breaking the system. I tried it once when I just started with linux, and I failed. Never tried to do it again myself, I let `ebuild` do it. It is not so easy, you know, to change version of a library which is a dependency of every binary in the system. And it is a C library. I wouldn't even try to do it, if it was a C++ library. Though who knows, two decades ago when I started with linux I probably was dumb enough to try.