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by pclmulqdq 1205 days ago
C++ doesn't have the same kind of head as you are thinking. The standard gets pretty well-tested before being standardized as the most recent ("head") version. C++'s head gets more testing than most libraries ever get for any version.
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pjmlp 1204 days ago
Anyone with proper experience on C++ ecosystem knows this isn't the case.

Not only is ISO full of DR and things that probably shouldn't have been standardized in first place (thankfully some of them were latter removed), there is plethora of compilers to chose from.

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saagarjha 1204 days ago
Most people looking for modern C++ are choosing one of three compilers. Most code mostly works.
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pjmlp 1204 days ago
Those three compilers don't work everywhere, aren't allowed everywhere, and mostly works isn't "The standard gets pretty well-tested before being standardized as the most recent".

How were GC API, auto_ptr, modules, concepts and co-routines pretty well tested?

In those three compilers they surely weren't, so in which ones?

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humanrebar 1204 days ago
Most people are using more than one compiler at the same time. For instance, MSVC plus some combination of clang-based tooling for static analysis and/or local dev.

And folks using a full stack of MS tooling are probably using the EDG compiler as an implementation detail for IntelliSense support.

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galangalalgol 1204 days ago
Yeah everyone seemed to have atarted talking about living at head in general. My concerns about living at head for c++ is primarily compiler and static analysis support. I like my pipeline to build for clang and gcc and run unit tests in both clang tidy modernize, gcov, cppcheck asan etc.

By the time all of that is supported for a language release we are on the next one, and I value that pipelene more than the changes currently being made.

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