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by wiseowise 1307 days ago
> That take detracts from the amazing work people have done over the decades to research and implement improvements to C and C++.

What kind of argument is that?

> We can innovate without throwing things away, even if it may seem boring to the uninitiated.

You can’t innovate without breaking backwards compatibility. C++ is an evolutionary dead end that collapses under its own complexity, deal with it.