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Yeah it is! Java 25 changed constructor behaviour to allow logic to run before the calls to super(). That’s an enormous change.

On the c++ side, “modern” features like span, smart pointers, range based for loops, format are all really simple to reason back to for anyone who is a programmer. Stuff like modules and concepts is a bit different, but most people aren’t in the innards of those every day, in the same way that the change in header size doesn’t affect every single Java developers code, but you should know about it.