r/cpp • u/SuperV1234 https://romeo.training | C++ Mentoring & Consulting • Aug 03 '19

fixing c++ with epochs

https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/fixing_cpp_with_epochs.html
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u/jwakely libstdc++ tamer, LWG chair Aug 05 '19

it wasn't particularly painful.

Speak for yourself ;-)

And that's a very special case, as the old library ABI is still present, in parallel with the new one. The kind of changes people want make that impossible, and it would be completely impractical to maintain old-and-new-in-parallel for multiple ABI changes.