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by CRConrad 705 days ago
> Realizing the spec for C++23 is about two-and-some-change-times the length of the King James Bible has really reframed my thinking on this language.

I wonder how much shorter the spec for a radically simplified version of C++ -- say, one that zero-initializes everything, and has no default constructors ("not writing a constructor raises an error" or something) -- would be? 5% 50? 95...?