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by _0w8t 1375 days ago
The problem is that there is a lot of code and libraries using older patterns. And modern C++ is sufficiently different from the older C++ to constitute effectively a new language while still being unsafe. Moreover, in an attempt to address the efficiency the language has added views and ranges that provides more ways to corrupt memory. So why rewrite libraries in modern C++ when you can port them to Rust or Go and gain memory safety?