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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++ by r0ze-at-hn on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:29AM (#38065694)
Option 3) Most businesses have a lifetime, most software has a lifetime, and one day they are run for the very last time. The same will happen for code written in C++, most of it will simply die. Some might live on in a GitHub repository, never to be compiled again.

Option 4) The business core is turned into a library. Everything from the command line tools to UI all wrap this in other languages. Everything that is not the core is deleted.

With the C++ committee after the last two decades I am firmly in the I'll believe [shiny feature] when I see it camp.

Re:Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++ by pjmlp on Monday October 30, 2023 @06:32AM (#38067680)
COBOL 2023 was just ratified, so C++ still quite a road ahead of itself even if we rewrite everything starting today.