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A comment on Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++.

Re:Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++ by zamalek on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:32AM (#38066926)
I really hope that this yields fruit. I'll never touch the language again myself, but we need to get the hardcore C++ fans on board. However,

> By the time it happens — 40 years from now — we’ll probably have 20 different ones, and they have to interoperate.

C++ doesn't interoperate with anything either due to name mangling being unspecified.

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Re:Bjarne Stroustrup's Plan for Bringing Safety to C++ by GoblinSlayer on Monday October 30, 2023 @05:51AM (#38067412)
C/C++ can't even interoperate with itself due to varying text encodings, integer sizes, different file system capabilities, fork and stuff like that.
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